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BLACK AND TERRIBLE YEAR; 



Chronological Record 



PEINCIPAL CIYIL, POLITICAL, AND ECCLE- 
SIASTICAL EVENTS, THE WAES, BAT- 
TLES, EIOTS, INSUERECTIONS, 
MILITAEY MOVEMENTS, 
CALAMITIES on SEA 
AND LAND, Etc., 

I>XJR,INO^ THE ITEAR, IS^l* 



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Jk.UTHOR OF " SYNCHRONOLOGV OF SACRED AND PROFANH HISTORY," 
"AMERICAN HISTORICAL CHART," ETC., ETC. 



INDIANAPOLIS, IND.: 

18 7 2: 



THE LIBRARY 
or CONGRESS 

WASHINGTON 



PREFACE 



In presenting this little volume to its readers, the com- 
piler feels it to be a duty which he cheerfully performs, to 
acknowledge the very valuable assistance he has received from 
the Editor of the Boston Journal. In closing the " Syn- 
chronology of Sacred and Profane History," in 1869, and 
the "American Historical Chart," in 1870, it was our pur- 
pose to continue this Chronological historj'^ from year to year 
and publish the same in pamphlet form. For this purpose 
it became necessary to adopt some reliable plan by which 
the desired information could be secured. Having been a 
constant reader of the Boston Journal for fifteen years, we 
have always found in its Weekly edition the most complete 
and accurate account of current events that could be found 
in any American Journal. Hence it is from the columns of 
this paper, more than from all other sources, that the events 
recorded in this volume have been selected. S. H. 



Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, 

By S. ha WES, 

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. 



J. G. BOUGHTY, PRINTER, 

Indianapolis, Ind. 



INTRODUCTION 



The year 1870 closed amid scenes which naturally excited 
fearful apprehensions in the minds of individuals and of na- 
tions. Standing upon the threshold of the new year, and 
looking out into the future, the prospect was truly forbidding. 
The Franco-Prussian war was in mighty operation, and the 
cloud that hung over all Europe was dark and portentous, 
causing the crowned heads of Empires and Kingdoms to 
await the issue of events with apparent solicitude. The events 
of this eventful year have passed into history, and the record 
is without a parallel in the annals of time. 

"The past year has, under a wise Providence, * * * 
been attended with more than usual chastisements, in the 
loss of life and property b}^ storm and fire, * * distresses 
occasioned by the elements." — President Grant's Message. 

"Victor Hugo should have waited to see 1871, before he 
called 1870 "the terrible year." For earthquakes, pesti- 
lence, fire, famine, tornadoes, and an extraordinary number 
of disasters and calamities have made this year a terrible 
one the wide world over." — Neio York Evening Post. 

"We may be justified in assuming that the year 1871 will 
be known in future calendars as the Black Year." — Chicago 
Tribune. 

"The year 1870 went out with a great flood at Rome, such 
as had not been witnessed in three previous centuries. From 
one-half to two-thirds of the Eternal City went under the 
waters of the Tiber; 20,000 dwellings were surrounded, 100,- 
000 people suffered hunger and inundation of property; 
thirty men, women and children lost their lives; and the 
damage done reached the enormous sum of $12,000,000. The 
calamity overshadowed the city on New Year's Day, The 
water was over the city forty-eight hours, and rose to a hight 
of sixty feet. 

" In the United States a water famine prevailed. The 
Merrimac, in New England, had not run so low since 1807. 
Many States suffered by winter's drouth; a new cattle disease 
had just appeared in the State of New York. 

" Portugal was suffering greatly by depression in trade, 
with innumerable disasters to shipping. 

" In India the trade in Cashmere shawls was nearly de- 
stroyed by the European war, and pauperism and want pre- 
vailed thereby." — Boston Journal. 



CHEONOLOGIOAL ReCOED, 1871. 



JATVU-A^R-Y. 



1. Spain excited over the assassination of General Prim, 
who died Dec. 29. 

1. Napoleon holds a reception at Wilhelmshohe. 

1. The Dis-establishing Act comes in force in Ireland. 

1-10. Terrific gales on the entire Atlantic. On the British 
coast over thirty persons were drowned. In the Gulf 
Stream the winds were terrific. Snow, hail, sleet, rain, 
thunder and lightning prevailed. One captain styled it 
"A marine hell." 

1.' War in Montevideo; the defeated rebels burn and plun- 
der for 200 miles. 

1. French prisoners of war in Germany now number 11,160 
officers, and 333,885 men. 

1. Battle of Bapaume, France. German loss in killed, 
wounded and prisoners, 9000 ; French loss, 4000. 

2. Reception at the President's White House omitted — a cus- 
tom never before departed from since Washington's day. 

2. Council of Indian nations at Ocmulgee, and a Constitu- 
tion adopted by a vote of 52 to 3. 

2-3. Great battles on the Seine. 

3. The Legislature of New York assemble. 

3. Celebration of the eighth anniversary of President Lin- 
coln's Proclamation of Emancipation. 

3. Railroad accident near Memphis; nine persons burned to 
death, and many injured. 

4, Meeting of the Massachusetts Legislature. 

4. Trial of Cadet Smith and others at West Point. 

4. Battles and engagements on the Loire and a few French 
victories reported. 

5. Henry Ward Beecher's salary increased to $20,000. 

5. A lady — the first one — appointed to a clerkship in the 
Legislature of Wisconsin. 

5. The south forts of Paris commence to be bombarded, and 
Issy temporarily silenced. 

6. Lord Derbj^ in a speech at Preston, urged England to put 
the country on a war footing. 



6 The Black and Terrible Year, 

6. A plot discovered to seize the Governor General and the 
Island of Java ; Swiss soldiers implicated. 

7. Twenty car loads of tea arrived at New York, 23 days 
from Hong Kong via San Francisco. 

7. Great fire in Plainfield, N. J. Loss $200,000. 

7. Election riot at Frankfort, Ky. ; one killed and several 

wounded. Indian fight in Arizona; none killed. 
7. General Chanzy with 200,000 men moves to the relief of 

Paris, but is repulsed by the Prussians. 

7. The French array invest Belfort. 

8. The water famine begins in Jersey City, N. J. 

8. Alarming spread of hoof and mouth disease in New Eng- 
land. 

8. A statement publicly made, based on the report of Secre- 
tary Wells, that our late war financially wasted $9,208,- 
000,000, and cost the lives of over 600,000 soldiers, mostly 
vigorous young men. 

9. The correspondence between Secretary Fish and Minister 
Motley submitted to Congress. 

9. The Cincinnati clergy resolve against the license of pros- 
titution in that city. 

9. First negotiations for exchange of French and Prussian 
prisoners in France. 

9. An insurrection breaks out at Banuah, Grenada. 

9. Prussia raises the siege of Langres. 

9. Werder defeats Bourbaki at Visoul, taking 800 prisoners. 

9. The Germans capture Peronne and 3000 prisoners. 

10. Great coal mine strike begins in Pennsylvania. 
10. The San Domingo resolution passes the House. 
10. The Mint bill passed by the Senate. 

10. In Kansas women made clerks in both houses, and a girl 
appointed a page. 

10. General Chanzy defeated and retreating, with the loss of 
1000 men taken prisoners. 

10. German troops occupy Havre. 

10. In Yucatan an Indian war breaks out and 500 warriors 
take the field. 

10. Insurrection in Oaxaca, Mexico. State troops defeated. 

1-12. The Hornet lands men in Cuba, who are attacked by 
the Spaniards, and seventeen men killed or captured. 

10. Great and damaging floods in Washington Territory. 
Near Monterey, Cal., a water spout destroyed bridges, cat- 
tle, lumber, etc. An eruption of Ceburrucco volcano in 
Mexico destroyed three plantations and the villages of 
Apuarathan, Ithaus and Jaba. 

10-18. The severest floods occurred ever known on the Isth- 
mus of Darien. All railway transit was stopped, and the 
losses were immense. 



Chronological Record^ 1871 — January. 7 

11. National Woman's Suffrage Association at Washington, 
and 50 ladies before the House Committee plead for the 
ballot. 

11. The Senate pass the San Domingo Commission bill. 

11. Great riot at Albright station, on the Mendota railroad, 
111., and many persons were injured. 

11. Chanzy driven back at LeManz, and 2000 men are priso- 
ners to Prussia. A great battle ensues between 180,000 
Germans and 200,000 French; the French beaten, and on 
the retreat lose 16,000 men and immense war material, 

11. Fourteen mariners deserted from Pensacola Navy Yard, 
and all were drowned in the sea. 

11. Near Sheffield, Eng., by a coal mine explosion, twenty- 
six persons lost their lives, and nine others were injured. 

5-12. A water famine in. Jersey City for eight days, causing 
a loss of $100,000 per day, by suspension of manufacturing 
business. 

11. At Newcastle, Eng., twenty miners were killed by explo- 
sion of fire damp. 

12. Trial of Dr. Lanahan begins at New York, 
12. Telegraph cable laid to Java, Asia. 

12. The famous Ohio liquor bill becomes a law. 

13. The three hundred million five per cent, refunding bill 
passed by the House. 

13. Woman suffrage defeated in Congress, 3000 women hav- 
ing memorialized Congress against it. 
13. Bismarck orders French merchant ships to be captured. 

13. Paris, on the south bank of the Seine, in fiames. 

14, England releases four Fenian prisoners. 

14. Extraordinary war preparations in England, and an in- 
tense popular hostilitj' towards Prussia. 

14. Three men murdered by Indians in Arizona. 

14. The French Foreign Office protests against the bombard- 
ment of the city of Paris, without previous notification. 
Bismark defends his war policy. 

14-15. The steamer General Outram foundered by a clyclone 
in the Indian ocean and 53 lives were lost. 

14-16. Heavy and disastrous snow-storm over the Western 
States. In Ontario the storm raged three days with " a 
fury that had no parallel." 

14. Steamer T. L. McGill exploded her boilers on the Missis- 
sippi in a great gale, and 58 persons perished. 

15. First arrival of teas at New York via Suez Canal. 

15. Nearly $12,000,000 worth of war material has been shipped 
from the United States to France since the beginning of 
the war with Prussia, to this date. 

15. The revolution in Oaxaca, Mexico, is defeated. 



8 The Black and Terrible Year. 

15. Turkey orders the construction of* a 6000 tonnage armor- 
plated war vessel, of 1200 horse power. 

15, All the south of Paris under a furious bombardment, day 
and night. The Archbishop, Dr. Manning of London, said 
in a sermon: "I have never yet, so far as I have read, 
heard of a city of two millions of souls shut in by a circle 
of iron and fire, wasted, wasted, day and night, by starva- 
tion ; and I know nothing that is more terrible at this mo- 
ment than the death rate of Paris. It must be at least five 
fold the death rate of London." Paris eating 600 horses a 
day. 

15. At Oaxaca, Mexico, a violent and disastrous earthquake 
occurred, but no lives were lost. 

16. Banquet to General Sheridan at Florence given by Victor 
Emmanuel. 

16. In Cuba 200 insurgents are attacked by Spaniards, and 
20 are killed. 

15-16. Terrible battle at Belfort; Bourbaki defeated. 

17. Three hundred Crispins on a strike at New Brunswick^ 
N. J. 

17. Sailing of the Tennessee with the San Domingo Commis- 
sioners. 

17. Continual outrages b}'^ Ku-Klux in Robeson county, N. C. 

18. Fourteen Japanese nobles arrive at San Francisco to at- 
tend college in the United States. 

18. Convention at Philadelphia in favor of recognizing God 
in the Constitution of the United States. 

18. At Laconia and Lake Village, N. H., seven earthquake 
shocks were felt. 

18-24. The Panama floods nearly ended, having lasted four- 
teen days. The village of Metachin was completely over- 
flowed ; only the tops of the houses seen. 

19. The first car-load of California cotton sent to New Eng- 
land. 

19. King William of Prussia assumes the Imperial Crown of 

Germany. 
19. Bourbaki's panic-stricken army fleeing into Switzerland, 

where they perish of the cold by thousands. 
19. Longwy bombarded by the Prussians. 
19. Sortie from St. Denis under the guns of Valerian, by 

100,000 French, who are driven back with a loss of 6,000 

men or more. 

19. Faidherbe's army terribly defeated, with a loss of 14.000 
men killed and wounded; the Germans lose 3,000. 

20. Victoria C. Woodhull announces herself a candidate for 
the United States Presidency. 

20. Letters received from Paris say there has been 22,000 



Chronological Record^ 1871 — January. 9 

deaths in the city to December 22, since the siege began. 
Ninety-five days. 
20. Angry notes between Prussia and Luxembourg. 

20. Thirty unwounded Mobile Guards found frozen to death 
at Mendon, France. 

21. In two weeks contagious diseases in New York city 
caused the death of 537 persons. 

21. Washington authorities say that the Roll of Honor con- 
tains the names of 333,000 graves of soldiers of the Union^ 
and comprises 25 volumes, to be completed in twenty-seven 
volumes. 

22. King Amadeus having entered Madrid on the first of the 
Year, his queen now joins him. 

22. Civil war threatened between the five Central American, 
republics, and an ill feeling between Costa Rica and Hon- 
duras. Revolution in Uruguay. 

22. All the armies of France are defeated and the fate of 
Paris is in suspense. 

23. Passage by the Senate of the Invalid Pension bill. 

23. Reception to the released Fenians given at New York 

by Tammany. 
23. Longwy in flames under bombardment by the Prussians. 

23. Destructive fire in Milford, Mass. Eleven stores, many 
other buildings, three women and seven horses were con- 
sumed. At Lewiston, Me., twenty-nine cattle;and seventy- 
five sheep were buriit alive. Chicago had a $100,000 fire. 
Five miners at Sharon, Pa., fell down a shaft 110 feet, and 
were killed. At Egg Harbor, eight men by the wreck of 
the Kate Smith, and ten men by the wreck of the Alfred 
Hall were lost. 

24. Massachusetts Woman's Suffrage Meeting at Boston. 

24. Annual Session of the Workingmen's Assembly at 

Albany, N. Y 
24. A revolution in progress in Bolivia, S. A., and Morales. 

victorious in numerous engagements. 

24. In a tunnel in France two trains collided, and five cars 
loaded with soldiers were smashed, killing and wounding 
scores. 

20-29. All the North of Spain inundated by rain and floods. 
Immense destruction of property. 

25. Vinnie Ream's statue of Lincoln unveiled at Washing- 
ton. 

25. Capitulation of Longwy, with two hundred guns and four 

thousand men. 
25. Prussia holds all the North and East of France. '' 

25. Jules Favre at Versailles seeking terms of peace. 

26. The Missionary ship, "Morning Star," launched at East 
Boston, Mass. 



10 The Black and Terrible Year, 

26. Only five days' rations left In Paris. 

26. News of a revolt among the Tartars in China, which bad 
reached alarming proportions. 

26. A great snow storm extending from the Rocky Moun- 
tains to the Atlantic; the severest in New York "known 
for many years." Destructive fires in New York. Appli- 
cations for relief by the poor were 30 per cent, greater 
than in 1870, so cold and severe was the season. 

27. The London Conference meet and adjourn. 

27. Massachusetts Radical Peace Society convene at Boston. 
27. Revolution in Guerrero, Mexico. 

27. Gas tank fell in Brooklyn, N. Y., a man killed, and a fire 
destroyed property valued at $200,000. 

27. The barque Templar, with all on board, sunk by a colli- 
sion. 

28. British America joins the Dominion of Canada. 

28. Russia pushes more armies into Odessa and Caucasia. 

28. Reports of a secret alliance between Russia and Prussia 
occasion intense feeling in Europe. 

28. An armistice of three weeks signed at Versailles. 

26-28. The Jordan rebels defeated in a hard fight in 
Buenos Ayres at Neambee, with a loss of eight cannon and 
four hundred prisoners. At the close of the war Germany 
had as prisoners one Emperor, three or four Marshals, 
11,650 officers, and 363,000 rank and file of the French. 
France pays Germany, in three years' time, $1,000,000,000 
to purchase peace. This sum in gold would load a railway 
train of 322 cars. The 112,000 Germans expelled from 
French soil by the war, demand a total indemnity of 
$67,200,000. The official report says Germany lost by the 
war, 120,000 men ; 13,960 being killed, and 88,924 wounded. 
Germany's war bill is $750,000,000. War, disease, want, 
and hunger destroy 70,000 people in Paris within twelve 
months. Prussia captures fifteen hundred cannon and 
four hundred field pieces at Paris. 

28. Paris was taken to-day, and during the armistice that fol- 
lowed six hundred houses were burnt at St. Cloud. 

.28. Steamer W. R. Arthur exploded her boilers near Island 
No. .40 on the Mississippi, and burnt. Eighty-seven lives 
lost. 

29. The King of Spain is recognized by France, Italy, and 
Belgium. 

30. By the havoc of war and disease 23,000 more interments 
were made in Paris during the past twelve months than 
during the twelve months preceding. Nearly 11,000 were 
buried during the first three weeks of this month. 

.30. Trial for impeachment of Governor Holden begins at 
Raleigh, N. C. 



Chronological Record^ 1871 — February, 11 

30. The George Chorpening mail service claim defeated in 
the House. 

30. France still claims to have an army of 880,000 men. 
This month the French lost 800 pieces of artillery and 
350,000 men captured by the Prussian foe. Eighty thou- 
sand entered Switzerland, and manj^ perished of cold and 
hunger in the Jura. The Prussians lost but 10,000 men. 
The figures of contrast appear incredible. In the war 
Germany had 550,000 of her own soldiers sick and wounded 
in hospital, and also had in her hospitals 78,000 sick and 
wounded French soldiers. The siege of Paris lasted 130 
days. In this time there were twenty-two actions, engage- 
ments and battles near the city. The bombardment killed 
within the city's walls 44 (civilians) men, IG women and 29 
children — total, 89. The wounded were 208. The month 
of Januar}^ witnessed 43 engagements and battles on the 
soil of fair France. 

31. Statue of John A. Andrew placed in Doric Hall, Boston. 
31. A furious torrent of rain cause the dykes to overflow at 

the city of Smyrna. Many lives and much property 
destroyed. 
31. A terrible scourge begins in Buenos- Ayres, caused by 
the long continued drought. Gales and destructive floods 
in Australia and New Zealand. Violent eruption at 
Vesuvius. 



FISBilXJ^XlY. 



1. Italian Chamber of Deputies vote to make Rome the na- 
tional capital. 

1. The Cheney trial begins in Chicago. 

1. Congress admits the Georgia Senators, and the South is 
now all represented. 

1 300,000 more soldiers drafted in Prussia for the war. 

1. Sixty Indians killed in a light on the Colorado River. 

2. London Conference meets, and Russia's claims are all 
acknov/ledged, with reservations. 

2. The English press bitterly denounce Bismark's terms 

forced upon France. 
2. Baez and Cabral at Hayti prepare for war. 

2. Capture and sacking of the city of Potosi in Bolivia, S. 
A., by Morales, after six hours hard fighting, and 500 of 
the revolutionists killed; the city is pillaged three days 
and left in ruins. 

3. The Senate pensions the soldiers of 1812. 



12 The Black and Terrible Year, 

3. The Ivensington Bank at Philadelphia robbed of $100,000. 
3. Ships loading with food at New York and Boston for Paris. 

3. The Edith Wonson, with her crew of twelve men, given up 
for lost. 

4. Adelphi Theatre at Boston consumed by fire. 

4. A colored woman awarded $1500 by the court at Washing- 
ton for ejectment from a horse car. 

4. Revolution attempted at Port au Prince, Hayti, and the 
arsenals attacked; rebels repulsed. 

5. Trains loaded with food from London enter Paris. 

5. The London Observer announces that the Army Purchase 
system will be abolished. 

5. In Bolivia the government forces are victorious in battle. 

5, The New Hamburg. N. Y., railroad catastrophe killed and 
roasted or drowned 22 human beings, and cost the com- 
pany hundreds of thousands of dollars. 

5. An earthquake and tidal wave at Minititlan, Mexico. 

6. Conflict of authority between Bordeaux and Paris, in 
France, and Bismark rejects the former. 

6. Congress votes $20,000 to defray expense of investigating 
Ku-Klux outrages. 

6. Disturbances in Roumania compel the presence of a Turk- 
ish army. 

6. The formidable and long continued insurrection in the 
French colony of Algiers begins, costing thousands of lives 
and millions of property. 

6-7. Great riot betvsreen the Germans and French in the city 
of Mexico ; numbers injured. 

6. A cartridge explosion at Dunkirk, France. Of 150 girls- 
in the factory, 60 were instantly killed, and as many more 
wounded and disfigured for life. 

Y. Committee of Ways and Means agree to report a bill for 
the repeal of the income tax. 

Y. Correspondence of naval commanders in Dominican wa- 
ters laid before Congress. 

V. A fire at South Pittsburg, Pa., consumes 23 houses, and 
the loss reached $150,000. 

7. Jeflferson, Texas, had a $300,000 fire, and New York city 
$100,000; in Milwaukee and Trenton $125,000 were burnt.. 

8. New Jersey Senate ratifies the Fifteenth Amendment by a 
vote of 34 to 24. 

8. Elections for a Constitutional Assembly in E'rance. 
8. An Indian massacre in Arizona. 

8. A great fire in Ewen's Thread Factory, England, threw 
out of employ 900 operatives. 

9. British Parliament opens with a speech from the Queen, 
who is hissed in the streets of London. 



Clironological Record^ 1871 — Fehniary. 13 

9. The President announces a settlement to be made of the 
Anglo-American difficulties by Joint Commission. 

9. An armed mob of rummies attack government officers in 
Franklin county, Tenn., requiring the presence of fifty 
United States troops to quell the outbreak. 

9. In Venezuela the government is fallen and its forces de- 
feated by insurgents. 

10. The Senate confirms Messrs. Fish, Hoar, Schenck and 
Williams as High Commissioners. 

10. Kansas by law allows criminals to testify in their own 
behalf, and permits evidence of husband and wife con- 
cerning each other. 

10. Since January 4, in Cuba, 2000 insurgents have surren- 
dered to the Spaniards. 

10. The Howe Sewing Machine Factory burnt at Peru, Ind. ; 
four men burnt up. Loss of property $100,000. 

11. Two steamers leave New York with provisions for the 
suffering French nation. 

11. Incorporation of the Great Salt Lake and Colorado Rail- 
way Company; road 560 miles; capital fifteen millions of 
dollars. 

11. England increases her army nearly 20,000 men ; her war 
expenditures $1,433,500 more than in 1870. 

11. Awful gales on the British coast caused a loss of one 
hundred vessels and as many lives. Twenty vessels and 
40 persons lost in Bridlington Bay. The Pacific, of Liver- 
pool, was wrecked, and 26 souls perished. 

10-11. A French transport foundered in the Bay of Biscay, 
and 98 persons were drowned. 

12. Ontario votes $50,000 to encourage immigration. 

12. The Erie Railroad Company executes a consolidated 
mortgage on all its property for $30,000,000. 

12. Steamboat, Judge Wheeler, exploded her boilers on the 
Mississippi; three persons killed and others wounded. 

Vi. The Danube burst its banks, and the city of Vienna 
went under water. 

13. Results of the French elections: 370 Bonapartists and 
Orleanists, and 80 Republicans. 

13. The New French National Assemblj^ meets at Bordeaux. 

13. Popular disturbance at Nice put down by bayonets. 

13. War breaks out anew in Guerrero, Mexico. 

14. Trial of Congressman C. C. Bowen for bigamy. 

14. England votes the Princess Louise a dowry of £30,000. 
14. Unveiling and presentation of the Ball Statue of John 

A. Andrew to the State in Doric Hall, Boston, before the 

Governor and Legislature. 
14. War threatened between Nicaraugua and Costa Rica. 



14 The Black and Terrible Year. 

15. New Jersey House ratifies the Fifteenth Amendment 

by a vote of 144 to 64. 
15. Dominion Parliament opened at Ottawa. 

15. The Cuban war has already cost Spain $200,000,000. 

16. The Roumania Senate resolve complete devotion to King 
Charles, and co operation with his acts. 

16. The Governor of Arkansas having been impeached by 
the House on the 11th, to-day the Supreme Court impeach 
the Lieutenant Governor. 

16. Hard battle in Cuba between 400 Spaniards and 600 
revolutionists; the latter defeated. 

17. In Victoria, Cape of Good Hope, by a sudden and extra- 
ordinary water spout,* a village was torn from its place, and 
110 men, women, and children were drowned in the torrent 
of waters. Thirty houses were swept away. 

17. M. Thiers chosen Executive of France, and is recognized 
by the Ambassadors of the great powers. Alsace and Lor- 
raine petition the Asssmbly not to be separated from France. 

17. Hayti buys 50,000 guns and seeks a war loan of two mil- 
lion and a half dollars. 

17. A tornado in Arkansas and Mississippi tore in pieces two 
towns ; and a hurricane at Norfolk and Richmond, Va., and 
at New Orleans and Chicago, destroyed $200,000. 

17. From Jan. 27 to Feb. 17, a wild, mad elephant ravaged 
twelve towns and villages in the district of Maudla, India, 
and killed six men, eight women, and seven children. He 
ate five of his victims; one was a woman 80 years old! 

18. The Howard resolution, looking toward the U. S. owner- 
ship of Canada, offered in the Senate. 

18. The Chinese New Year's Day, anno 4319, celebrated by 
the Celestials. 

18. Great earthquake at Sandwich Islands, the severest 
ever known there. All walls were broken or fell down, the 
valleys filled with earth, and great rocks from the moun- 
tains, the ground cleft open in a thousand places, and the 
accompanying electric light seen in the eastern sky. Lit- 
tle, if any, loss of life. 

19. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas is 
now impeached, and anarchy rules the State. 

19. A colored man admitted into the Typographical Union 
by a vote of 229 to 68. 

19. Plot to assassinate Zorilla, the Spanish Minister at 
Madrid, and institute carnage. 

20. News of the safety of the Tennessee, now unheard from 
for over a month, reaches the country. 

20. Opening day of the Washington Carnival. 
20. In Peru the Lopez Indians bury Minister Munome alive- 
and commit other horrible atrocities. 



Chronological Record^ 1871 — February. 15 

20 — March 4. Violent earthquakes in Cuba and Hayti. Oa 
the 22d, seven Haytien volcanoes burst into furious erup- 
tion. 

20. On the Irish coast, by the wrecking of a barque, 12 men 
lost. 

20. It is announced that from 80 to 100 lives were destroyed 
by the lalling of a bridge near Canton, China. 

20-21. Unparalleled tropical storm at San Francisco, Tor- 
rents of rain, with wind, thunder and ligntning, occurred 
all night. No thunder and lightning storm had occurred 
there for 20 years. The barometer fell lower than ever 
before witnessed. Four killed and others injured. Prop- 
erty damaged $100,000. 

21. The London Conference agree to open the Black Sea. 

21. Anarchy, disruption and civil war in the Argentine Re- 
public ; 300 slaves revolt in Brazil. 

22. Bismarck communicates the terms of peace to London, 
Vienna, and St. Petersburg. 

22. Coolie insurrection and murders in Jamaica. 

22. Savannah, Ga., had a $250,000 fire, and two fires at New 
York destroyed an equal amount. 

23. W.ebster Bank, Boston, defalcation of $50,000.^ 

23. Dead lock in the Indiana Assembly by the resignation of 

34 Republican members. 
23. Great rains and destructive floods in Oregon. 

23. Tornado at Baxter Spa, Kansas, and hurricane at Jefi^er- 
son City, Mo., and in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wis- 
consin. A great area of country was swept, seven cities 
and towns were devastated, and the property destroyed was 
over $100,000. At Cleveland, Ohio, houses were demol- 
ished. 

24. The coal crisis reached; only a fortnight's supply in New 
York, and coal $20 per ton. 

24. Italy, in a quarrel with Tunis, grants her eight days to 
apologize or fight. Tunis settles. 

25. Failure to repeal the Income Tax in Congress, 
25. The Bayonet Election Bill passes the Senate. 

25. At a battle in Central America the State troops were 
defeated and 50 of them killed. 

25. In South Wales, Eng., a colliery explosion destroyed the 
• lives of 50 miners. 

26. Arrival in New York of 26 Japanese nobles and princes. 

26. Spain threatens Egypt with war, but settles up. 

27. The Joint High Commission hold their first meeting at 
Washington — a secret session. 

27. King William telegraphs the Empress Augusta that the 
Franco-German preliminaries of peace are signed. 



16 The Black and Terrible Year. 

112Y. Six weeks of mourning begins in Germany for the vic- 
tims of the six months' awful war. 

28. News that the King of Burmah has started a newspaper 
and a telegraph. 

28. The British Government propose to establish a Univer- 
sity in Jamaica Island. 

28. Mobs, violence and insurrection in Paris. 

28. An $80,000 fire in New York, and eleven men badly in- 
jured. 

28. At Jefferson, Mo., a $100,000 hotel was burnt. In Phila- 
delphia there occurred this month 21 deaths by violence. 
Other than these, 29 persons were killed by accidents, and 
10 negroes were hung by 500 white men. 



MIA-HCH. 



1. The Treaty of Peace ratified in the French Assembly — 

546 for peace, 107 for war. 
1. To this date, 6,000 women have memorialized Congress 

against granting woman suffrage. 
1. One hundred and forty Cuban insurgents recently killed. 

1, A tidal wave swept through Long Island Sound. 

2. Boston Post Office Appropriation Bill passed in the Sen- 
ate—cost not to exceed $1,500,000. 

2. A German army of 30,000 in Paris. 

2, Indians in Arizona massacre seven men. 

2, Severe earthquake shock at Eureka, Cal., lasting a 
minute ; chimneys toppled over and the walls of buildings 
cracked. 

2. The volcano Ruwang on Tagulaudang Island, in the Malay 
Archipelago, broke forth in eruption; the sea rose in a 
tidal wave 125 feet, and rushed on the land sweeping 
everything before it. But three houses left on the island. 
Four hundred and sixteen persons lost their lives. 

'2. In Central Illinois a farmer was killed by lightning while 
sowing grass seed in his field. 

1-Y. During this first week two fire balls in succession, sev- 
eral feet in diameter, fell on the deck of a vessel in lati- 
tude 40°, longitude 62°. They were accompanied with a 
crash and peal like thunder, and burst with a crimson 
flame that illuminated all the sea around. 

2. Extraordinary rains began in Peru, South America^ 
resulting in floods that inundated the whole land between 
the Andes and the sea for several weeks. Eight or ten 
towns were destroyed, more than 1,000 houses swept away, 



Chronological -Becord, 1871 — March. 17 

and seven thousand people made homeless and paupers- 
Loss estimated at $7,000,000. The calamity was considered 
as great as the earthquake of 1868, and was the greatest 
flood that ever occurred in Peru. 
2. At Morges, in France, twenty persons lost their lives by 
the explosion of powder in an arsenal. 

2. By a colliery explosion at Victoria, Eng., twenty miners 
were suffocated to death. 

3. The Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad Company de- 
clared bankrupt. 

3. Great fire in Ottawa, Ont. Loss $104,000. 

4. The Forty-first Congress expires, and the Forty second 
Congress is organized. 

4. Treaty of Commerce formed between Italy and the United 
States. 

4. The London Spectator- estimates the loss to France by 
the Prussian war at $6,000,000,000. 

5. A black prince from Liberia comes to this country to 
secure missionaries for Africa. 

5. Revolution threatened on Monmartre at Paris. 

4-5. Riot and murder at the Pennsj'lvania coal mines. 

5. Reign of terror in South Carolina by Ku-Klux outrages. 

5. A bloody Chinese fight in San Francisco. 

5. Honduras formall}* declares war against San Salvador. 

5. Schooner and six men lost off San Francisco. 

6. Leading statesmen in France fear a civil war. 
6. The Italian-Tunisian difficulty adjusted. 

6. Horrible scene in Court at Meridian, Miss. Judge Bram- 
lette shot dead by a negro and ten negroes shot and 
killed. 

6. A fire at Portsmouth, Ohio. Loss, $200,000. 

Y. A thousand workmen strike at Newcastle, England. 

7. Emperor William leaves Versailles for Berlin. 

Y. Ship, Mistress of the Seas, foundered on the ocean, and 
went down with seventeen persons. 

Y. South Nevada visited by the severest rains and gales expe- 
rienced for years. 

Y. An earthquake at Hawaii, tore up the ground, shattered 
houses, and prostrated chimneys. 

8. Victor Hugo hissed in the French Assembly while defend- 
ing Garibaldi. He then resigns. 

8. Leaving out Paris, the direct cost of the Franco-Prussian 
War is to-day, aside from the indemnity, no less than $200,- 
000,000. 

8. A terrible tornado swept everything before it from Helena, 
Arkansas, to Fayette, Illinois. At East St. Louis, six 
depots and sixty houses were demolished, one hundred 
2 



18 The Black and Terrible Year. 

freight cars overturned, a thirty ton locomotive was car- 
ried forty feet into the river, shingle nails and parasol 
braces were driven through one inch boards, seven per- 
sons were killed, and over fifty more or less injured. 
Fayette, Illinois, was torn in pieces, and Memphis, 
Tennessee, had a violent and destructive wind. At St. 
Louis alone, the damage was put at $500,000. 

S. New York Chamber of Commerce propose a Pacific Ocean 
cable of 6,515 miles. 

2). Paris begins a war with France. 

9. Great riot in Zurich, Switzerland. 

9. A furious gale swept the entire British coast. In three 
vessels twenty men went down into the sea. 

9. Mount Rainor, in Washington territory, which was never 
a volcano, became heated at the top, dissolving snow, 
throwing off steam and smoke, giving signs of eruption. 

9. Le Creuzot, France, had a torpedo explosion that killed 
eight persons and injured seven. The same day nineteen 
cars in a train filled with wounded German soldiers were 
wrecked by collision, killing twenty and injaring sixty 
others. 

10. Buffalo, at a mass meeting, favors free canals. 
10. Mexico in a state of anarchy. 

10. Ptevolt and terror at Tehuantepec, and on the Isthmus 
of Darien. 

10. A fire consumed fifty-eight buildings at Petroleum Centre, 
Pa. Loss $150,000. Another burnt fifteen houses at Rich- 
mond, Ky. Loss $150,000. On the same day, Holker 
Hall, the palace of the Duke of Devonshire, England, was 
burnt down. Loss $150,000. 

10. An electric storm at Arequipa, Peru, followed by earth- 
quake shocks. 

11. Government suit against William F. Weld & Co., of Bos- 
ton, for $400,000. 

11. The Privy Council of England decides against Ritualism 

in the established church. 
11. The San Louis rebellion put down at a cost of one 

million of dollars to Mexico, 
11. Political disturbances and mobs in Spain. 
11-12. Belleville fortified, and its guns are pointed toward 

Paris to destroy. 

11. A dreadful rain storm, accompanied by fierce thunder 
and lightning, deluged Mobile, Alabama, and one-half of 
the city was inundated, causing great damage. Fire in 
New York. Loss $100,000. _ 

12. The Paris Reds in possession of Monmartre. 

12. At Jersey, Eng., a vessel and eight lives lost. 

13. Two hundred bills introduced into the Massachusetts 



Chronological Becord^ 1871 — March. 19 

House of Rrepresentatives — a greater number than in any- 
single day previously. 
13. By the revolt of Tchuantepee, fourteen soldiers are 
•killed. 

13, In New Zealand, incendiary fires destroyed $200,000, 

14. Election in New Hampshire — Democratic victory, 
14. In Yucatan, a war of races is going on. 

14. The Europa's disaster; the captain, the first and third 
officers drowned in a gale. A tornado at St. Clair county, 
Illinois, demolished twenty farm houses, blowing some of 

. them six hundred feet away. Several persons killed, Loss 
$50,000. The terrible volcano, which broke out on the 2d 
instant, destroyed by flame and lava nearly all the cultiva- 
ble land on the island. All who survived the shock were in 
famine and distress. 

15. Soldiers' $100 bounty bill passed the Senate. 

15. The Austrian Government forbids a peace celebration 

in Vienna. 
15. Italy borrows two hundred million of livres for purposes 

of war, and the nation already nearly bankrupt. 

15. Memphis visited by a destructive gale. 

16. Emperor William enters Berlin, and Napoleon leaves his 
palace prison at Wilhelmshohe. 

17. Violent gale on the British coast. 

17. Project for a Congregational House in Boston, to cost 
$200,000. _ 

17. A cartridge factory at Chaucey, France, exploded, killing 
thirteen and wounding forty others. 

18. Fighting begins in Paris, which is now in full possession 
of the Reds. 

18. China pays France 200,000 taels on account of the 
Tientsin massacre. 

18. Forty persons reported killed by explosion of a powder 
factory at Hang Chow, in China. Earthquake in all the 
north of England. A water spout, five hundred feet high, 
and sixty feet in diameter seen off Cape Hatteras, 

18-20. Twenty-five bridges swept oflf by flood in Morgan 
county, Illinois. 

19. The Legislature of Illinois, after ten weeks' hard labor, 
passed three bills, and one of these was vetoed by the 
Governor. 

19. The Reds seize and hold the Paris forts; 200,000 men in 
arms against order and France. 

20. Napoleon arrives at Dover, England, and meets his 
family; all exiles. 

21. Colored men of Boston petition Congress for protection 
for loyal Southerners, 

21. Disastrous flood at Hallowell, Maine. 



20 The Black and Terrible Year. 

22. Passage of the Free Trade bill in the Dominion Parlia- 
ment; vote 102 to 28. 
22. Thirty citizens killed in Paris and the streets begin to 
run with blood. 

22. Disaster to a train filled with French soldiers on their 
way home from German prisons ; twenty-two killed and 
seventy-two wounded. 

23. The New York City Viaduct Railway bill passed by the 
Senate of New York. 

23. Pittsburg, Pa., had a $100,000 conflagration. 

23. A strong earthquake shock all over the British Isles. 

24. Boston's census first reported; population 248,866. The 
city and islands, 250,526. 

24. Executive Anti-KuKlux proclamation. 

24. Luperon with an array moves on Santiago, South 
America. He is routed, with seventeen killed, twenty-one 
wounded, and many of his men prisoners. 

25. Erie Railroad sued by stockholders at Glenn's Falls, N. Y- 
19-25. A sharp fight in Hayti between the forces of Baez and 

Cabral. 
25. A meteor, so brilliant as to cast a shadow, seen at New- 
York. On the same day, a fire destroys $250,000 worth of 
property in the city. 

25. A cyclone, that prostrated everything in its tracks at 
Aukland, Australia. The severest earthquake felt since 
1851, in Valparaiso and all Chili — prostrating persons, and 
cracking and shattering all walls ; also a new volcano in 
the sea near Smith's Island. North Pacific. 

26. Elections in Paris; of 500,000 voters only 180,000 vote. 
26. The Tennessee reaches Charleston with the San Domingo 

Commissioners. 
26. Great American project set on foot to explore Palestine 

and Jerusalem. 
26. Uruguay still at war and Blarfco in revolt. 
26 Horrible atrocities by the Cuban volunteers, who roast an 

insurgent alive. 
26. Riot at Swede Grove, on the North Pacific Railroad. 

Several killed and wounded. 

26. The damaging Bonnet Carre crevasse begins. 

27. Senator Sumner addresses the Senate on the San Do- 
mingo question. 

21. To-day there are 120,000 miles of railroad on the earth ; 

cost ten billions; one million of men employed. 
2T. Armed Carlists dispersed and some killed at Lerida^ 

Spain. 

28. Dominion Canal Commissioners report $1 5,920,000 needed 
for Canadian Canals. 

28. Marseilles, France, in revolt and put in siege. 



Chronoloqical Record, 1871 — April, 21 

19. Royal Albert Hall of Sciences and Art, opened by the 
Queen at London ; cost $500,000 ; 10,000 people present. 

29. The Arab chief, Mokrain, with 40,000 troops, declares war 
against France and French rule. 

29. All the business portion of Truckee, on the North Pacific 
Railway consumed; one hundred and twenty houses 
reduced to ashes. In Mississippi, incendiaries burn thir- 
teen school houses in ten days. 

30. A quarter of a million of people petition the English 
House of Commons to repeal the Contagious Disease act. 

30. The horrible Commune proclaimed in Paris. 

30. Since the revolution in Cuba began, it has cost Spain the 

employ of 107,000 troops, of whom Y0,000 are killed, died, 

deserted, or wounded, and she has borrowed thirty millions 

of dollars to carry on the war. 

27-30. Cuban engagements with heavy losses on both sides. 

30. In St. Joaquin Valley, Cal., a drouth, so severe as to 
cause thousands of cattle to die of thirst. 

31. Ludicrous quarrel between Garrett Davis and B. F. But- 
ler, on the floor of the United States Senate. 

31. British Columbia voted into the Dominion — 91 to 70. 

32. twenty-third Anniversary of Spiritualism celebrated at 
New York. 

31. Magnificent aurora; a great cloud of blood red in the 
northeast sky; the sight "to be remembered a lifetime." 
During the month a sun spot of 2,300,000 square miles 
area was visible. 

We notice eight other persons drowned, eight killed and 
seven injured by explosions, five burnt to death, twenty 
injured on railways, and four whites killed by Patagonians, 
who ate one of the murdered victims. It was the most 
disastrous quarter for vessels of the United States known 
since 1867. Since January 1, there were 125 vessels 
wrecked, involving a total loss of $6,800,000. 



A^PR-IIL.. 



1. Mexican Congress assembles. 

1. A colored page — the first one — appointed in the House of 
Representatives at the National Capitol. 

1. The Paris Commune inaugurate the Universal Social 
Republic. 

2. War between Ashantee and Dahoming, and the array of 
the former destroj'ed and dispersed in a bloody conflict. 

1. Severe shock of earthquake at Melbourne, Australia. 



22 The Black and Terrible Year. 

1. In Ashantee, Africa, an army of 50,000 men has been 
destroyed in battle, and by disease and famine. 

1. An incendiary fire at Syracuse, N. Y., destroyed three 
barns, fifty tons of hay, five horses and sixty cows; the 
brutes burnt alive. 

2. The second siege of Paris begins. The conflict opens by 
an attack on Versailles, and the Reds are driven back with 
a loss of 12,000 men. 

2. Two sharp earthquake shocks at San Francisco, Cal. 

2. Tornado at Dubuque, Iowa, and hurricane at Omaha^ 
Nebraska. 

3. One Marsh, of New Jersey, dying, leaves $400,000 to his 
six pet horses. 

3. Queen Victoria visits Napoleon and Eugenie at Chisel- 
hurst. Census of Great Britain taken. 
3. The KuKlux have destroyed 200 lives in Louisiana. 
3. In Mississippi the same gangs have killed 124 persons. 

3. Vesuvius in violent eruption since March 27. 

4. Bill to restore the Massachusetts prohibitory law rejected 
by a vote of 97 to 112. 

3, 4. Election in Connecticut and Rhode Island and Repub- 
lican victories. 
6. Peace Conference meets at Brussels, Belgium. 

5. Passover with the Hebrews celebrated. 

5. The whole Argentine Republic at civil war. 

6. Annual Fast Day in Massachusetts. 

6. Report of the Santo Domingo Commissioners and mes- 
sage of President Grant sent to Congress. 

6. Miners' riot at Scranton, Pa.; three killed and many 
wounded; 1,500 troops called out. 

Y. The Maine Central leases the Belfast and Moosehead Lake 
Railroad. 

7. Altercation between Weed and Irving in the New York 
Senate. 

*l. Fifty hostile Apache Indians killed and scalped by whites 

in Arizona. 
*l. At Albany, N. Y., 40 buildings were consumed by fire; 

300 persons thrown out of employ; loss |500,000. 

8. Roger Williams' statue unveiled at Washington. 

8. Heated term. Thermometer in Albany, N. Y., 100° in the 
shade. Extraordinary weather for two days. 

8. Revolution ended in Boyaca, Columbia, and the Argentine 
insurgents are routed. 

8. Seven lives lost b}' the explosion of the boilers of steamer 
S. J. Hall, at Golconda, on the Mississippi. 

8. In Columbia, S. A., the national mail robbed of $2,500,000. 

9. Destructive tornadoes in Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri. ^ 

9. Thermometer 100° in the shade. An aurora so brilliant 



Chronological Record^ 1871 — April. 23 

and powerful as to suspend the operations of the telegraph- 
in all directions from New York, 

10. Monster Peace procession and celebration of Germans 
in New York; also in all the great cities. 

10. An artillery battalion and 800 insnrgents fought in Cuba, 
and the latter defeated. 

10. Hurricane at St. Joseph, Mo. 

11. Equal Rights bill passed in the Legislature of Mississippi, 
ll. The coal miners appoint a delegation to confer with the 

companies, with a view to settle. 

11. Indians kill six Americans in Texas, and in turn 200 
Mexican troops, who had pursued and killed 80 Indians, 
were attacked by United States troops on our soil, and 4 
of the latter killed. 

II everest rain and wind ever known at Pottsville, Pa., and 
the damage estimated by thousands. 

12. Thiers demands of the Paris rebels that they lay down 
their arms, and settle terms of peace. 

12-15. In a battle in Cuba between 800 troops and 1,000 in- 
surgents, the Spaniards had 44 killed and 59 wounded; 
their foe 72 killed and wounded. 

12. In Hayti the troops of Baez defeat Cabral. 

12. Paris shelled. _ 

13. Religious riot in Odessa, the Jews despoiled. 

13. Extraordinary auroral display of red, green, and white 
colors, with a broad white belt spanning the sky overhead. 

14. The KuKlux bill passes the United States Senate. 

14. To date, the shells have destroyed house property in 

Paris valued at $400,000. 
14. United States troops in Arizona shoot thirty-four 

Apaches. 
14. Terrific hail storm at Jackson, Miss.; stones fell sixinches 

in circumference, 4,000 lights broken, and roofs pierced. 

14. To date since Jan. 1, six vessels and 45 fishermen were 
lost on the Banks. 

15, The House rejects the Senate's amendment to the Ku 
Klux bill. 

15. The Southern Pacific Railroad incorporated company 
project a continuous line of 720 miles from the Colorado 
to San Francisco. 

15. Tehuantepec in rebellion against Mexico. 

15. Versailles troops attack Fort Vanvres, with great 
slaughter. 

15. Battle of Neuilly, at Paris. 

15. Forest fires at Clinton and Bolton, Mass., consume every- 
thing over 200 acres. At Newfield, N. J., 48 square miles 
of forest are burnt over, with barns, fences, &c. 

15. Remarkable mirage witnessed at Rochester, N. Y. 



24 The Black and Terrible Year. 

15. Earthquake in Scotland'; ceilings cracked and houses 
sunk a foot. 

16. U. S. Minister Washburne remains at his dangerous post, 
in Paris, now again invested. 

IT. Thiers rejects Bismarck's proposal for armed interven- 
tion in Paris affairs. 

17. Three hundred insurgents in Cuba defeated by the Span- 
ish troops, with a loss of 30 killed. 

17, 18. Insurrection in Sinaloa, Mexico. 
17, 18. Battle of Asnieres, near Paris. 

17. Nebraska State Insane Asylum at Lincoln burnt, and 
two inmates perish Loss $150,000. 

18. Tainted meat excitement around Boston, and the death 
of Temple, the butcher, by poison taint. 

18. Red rebellion attempted and put down at Bordeaux. 
18. A United States captain and 14 soldiers killed by the 
Indians in Texas. 

18. Wind storm at Leavenworth, Kansas, destroyed many 
thousand dollars worth of property. 

19. Ninety-sixth anniversary of the battle of Lexington 
celebrated. 

19. Bill to abolish British game laws defeated in Parliament 
by a majority of 126. 

19. An arch destroyed at Paris that cost $2,000,000. 

20. KuKlux Enforcement bill passed by Congress and signed 
by the President. 

20. The proposal in the House of Commons to tax each 100 
matches half a penny, and so increase the Government 
income £550,000, sets all England in an uproar. 

20. Turkey growling war at Egypt. 

20. At ^outh Boston, Mass., a fire rendered houseless 20 
families, and consumed $100,000. 

21. Mass meeting of French citizens in New York in favor of 
the annexation of Canada. 

21. At Sanetos, in San Salvador, a great battle occurred, and 
1,000 men were killed and wounded. Honduras conquers 
Salvador. 

21. At Chiriqui 600 men in revolution. 

22. Earl de Gray gives a reception at Washington. 

22. Great Methodist tent seating 10,000 persons pitched at 
Sacramento, Cal. 

22. Caveats filed in the Patent Office for using electricity as 
a motive power, and an electrical two-horse power engine 
exhibited. 

23. President Grant visits the Western States. 

23. Insurrection attempted and put down at Marseilles. 

24. The miners in Pennsylvania accept the operators pro- 
posals. 



Clironological Record^ 1871 — April. 25 

"24, Twenty rebels in Cuba surprised and killed. 

24. Destructive hail storm at New Orleans. 

25. There are now forty weather signal telegraph stations in 
the United States. 

25. The Watch Tax bill withdrawn in England. 

25. News of peace between San Salvador and Honduras. 

14-26. One sixth of the Mississippi river pouring through the 

Bonnet Carre crevasse, now 1200 feet wide and 18 feet deep. 

A tract of country for forty miles is under water, a dozen 

miles of railway swept off, plantations inundated, and the 

damage put at $300,000. 

25. At this date the loss of life by the great floods in Peru, 
S. A., is great, and $15,000,000 it is said will not cover the 
damage by the water. 

26. Fifty-second Anniversary of the I. 0. 0. F. celebrated. 
26. Fifteen railroad companies represented in a convention 

at New York. 
26. Bloody Indian war breaks out in Peru, South America. 
26. Negro riot and some killed in Robeson county, N. C. 
26. All the insurgent forts at Paris under a terrilole fire from 

Thiers' forces. 

26. At Vernon, Yt., 32 freight cars ran off the track, and 
.fifteen of them, heavily freighted, were crushed to pieces. 

27. Bismarck tells the commune not to harm the Archbishop 
of Paris. 

27. In New Orleans a negro recovers $1,000 from a saloon 

keeper who refused to sell him food. 
27. Indians massacre whites in Dakota. 

27, Violent and destructive hail at Detroit, Mich. 

28. Habeas corpus suspended in Westmeath, Ireland. 

28. A new line of steamers projected from New York to Rome. 
28. A yellow fever plague at Buenos Ayres destroys in five 

months 26,000 persons. 
28. United States troops shot dead eighty-five Arizona Indians. 

28. The flooding of New Orleans begins. 

29. From Zanzibar comes news of the sxfety of Dr. Living- 
stone. 

29. 125 Indians massacred by whites in Arizona. 
29. Destructive hail storm at Jacksonville, Miss. 

29. A breach in the Erie canal, near Rochester, that cost a 
million of dollars to repair. 

30. The London Missionary Society about to established a 
station at New Guinea, where none was ever before under- 
taken. 

30. A Protestant church has been dedicated — the first one in 

the city of Mexico. 
30. Floods in Meridian, Miss., very damaging. 
30. It is announced in Viena that Verovitica, a large town ia 



26 The Black and Terrible Year. 

Sclavonia, is destroyed by fire, that 400 houses are con- 
sumed, 4.000 people houseless and in want, and the loss is 
$2,000,000. 

"We note fires as follows: A church in Brooklyn, $100,000, 
Shop at Louisville, Ky., $200,000. Grand Rapids, Mich., 
$250,000. Newbern, N. C, $200,000, (17 houses.) W.. 
Castleton, Vt., $150,000. Hotel at Galesburg, 111., $100,000. 
St. Louis, Mo., $100,000." Iron Works, Rome, N. Y., $150,- 
000. Woolcott, N. Y., burnt up, and a $150,000 fire on a 
plantation at Colon, in Cuba. 

The ship Queen of the Thames wrecked off Cape Good Hope, 
five men lost, and a cargo valued at $250,000. 

"We also count in groups twenty persons drowned, seven 
scalded to death, five buried alive, six killed on railways, 
four by explosions, and twenty cars consumed by fire: not 
regarding any single case of causalty in the list. 



1. State opening of the International Exhibition at London 
by the Prince of Wales. 

1, Great German Peace Jubilee at Pittsburg, Detroit, Co- 
lumbus, etc. 

1. Brigham Young broke ground for the Utah Southern 
Railroad. 

1. Insurrection in New Zealand, and twenty-five rebels killed. 

1. The Island Camiquin, one of the Philippines, yielding one- 
tenth of the Manilla hemp of the world, thickly inhabited 
by 26,000 people, was torn in pieces by volcano and earth- 
quake. A crater opened 1500 feet wide — there was a rain 
of fire — all the forest was set in a blaze — 200 persons 
destroyed, and the rest fled from the island. "It was the 
most terrible eruption that ever took place in the Philippian 
group." 

1. Great floods at New South Wales, nearly ruining the 
wheat crop — " loss immense." 

2. Motion to lower the rates of ocean postage defeated in 
the English Parliament. 

2. Semi-Centennial celebration of English High School at 

Boston. 
2. 300 Reds bayonetted at Clamart, Paris. 
2. 20,000 hogsheads of sugar lost by the Louisiana flood. 
2, Hurricane over all Louisiana; "the oldest river men say 

they never witnessed such a storm." Hundreds of houses 

at Baton Rouge blown down, and scores of boats damaged 

or sunk. 



Chronological Becord^ 1871 — May. 2T 

2-4. Violent and destructive wind storm over all the North- 
western States. 

3. J. Gould arrested for contempt of court, and bail denied^ 

3. Female suflFrage defeated in the House of Commons^ 
England, by a majority of 69. 

3. Plot to massacre Jews in Roumania defeated. 

3. Indian battle in the Pinal mountains, Arizona, and 28 
Apaches killed. 

3. Awful hurricane at Fiji Islands; a brig went down with 
all on board; many others wrecked. 

3. A hat factory burned at Brooklyn, N. Y.; twenty families- 
houseless, 500 persons thrown out of work, and a loss of 
half a million dollars in property. 

4. President Grant issues a Ku-Klux proclamation. 

4. Revolution kept up at Panama. 

5. Half a million fraud by A. Woodruff at Lynchburg, Va. 

6. A ship loaded with Coolies, from Macon to Callao, set on 
fire at sea, and of 550 Chinese on board over 450 were 
burned to death or drowned in the sea. 

5. Freshet at Albany N. Y., and all the lower streets submerged.. 

5. Great land slide at Silver Hill, Bradford, N. H. Several 
acres covered with rock, earth and debris. 

6. Pullman cars first run east of Boston. 

6. Sortie from Paris and battle under the walls. 

7. It is announced that the Joint High Commission have 
' concluded their work and that the treaty is prepared. 

Y. Battle at Herat, in Cabul, and the forces of Yacoob Khan 
repulsed by the garrison. 

7. Faquendos in Pa. burnt; 50 buildings consumed, 300 
houseless people, and of property destroyed $100,000. The 
dam for a 50,000 acre pond, of ten feet depth of water, 
the largest in the world, broke away at Tupper's Lake, N. 
Y., on the Raquette river, causing a flood for 100 miles. _ 

Y. Portage Lake, four miles long and two and a half miles 
wide, broke its bed and became joined to Lake Michigan. 

8. The coal famine ends and large shipments are at once 
made from the mines. 

8. The revolt in Algiers spreads to all the provinces. 

8. In a. fight of 250 United States troops near Laramie with 
several thousand Indians, the latter were defeated with a 
loss of two or three hundred killed and wounded. 

8. Railroad works and 20 locomotives destroyed by fire at 
Wilmington, Del., loss $250,000. 

9. The signing of he treaty at Washington announced in 
the Parliament of Great Britain. 

9. Miners' riot at Hyde Park, Pa.; three persons killed and 
eight wounded. 



28 The Black and Terrible Year. 

9. " Thousands of dollars damage" by a freshet at Harper's 
Ferry, Va. 

9. Fourteen lives lost by wreck of the ship City of Quebec 
on Dead Island, New Newfoundland. 

10. A motion of Disestablishment lost in the English Parlia- 
ment by 285 negative majority. 

10. Treaty of Peace between Prussia and France signed. 

10. Grand Army of the Republic convene at Boston. 

10. Connecticut Legislature by a vote of 122 to 100 declares 
Jewell Governor. ' 

10. Italy decides to fortify Rome with a double circle of thirty- 
five fort'^. 

10. Tornado at Bridgeport, 111.; a woman killed. 

11. Williamson's road steamer first tried on Erie canal. 

12. The Commune orders all religious instruction to cease 
at Paris. 

12. The Anglo-American Treaty made public. 

12. Italy, by telegram, greets and thanks Massachusetts for 

sympathy with her Union. 
12. In Khiva, Asia, insurgent tribes under Sahdik declare 

war against Russia, which sends an army against them. 
12. The Tycoon of Japan, in conflict with the Mikados, who, 

in revolt, plot to seize the throne; but themselves are thrust 

out of place and power. 

12. Accident at Griswold Station, Erie Railroad. Of thirty 
in a car, five children were killed and twenty adults injured. 

13. The Senate's quarrel with New York reporters begins. 

13. On the wharves at Heywood, England, a fire destroyed 
cotton, buildings, etc., to the value of $500,000. 

14. 16. By the destruction of dwellings, the house of M. 
Thiers, and a single commemorative column at Paris, 
property perished valued at over five millions of dollars. 

14. A rebellion against King Thakambau in Fiji. 

15. Judge Cofer, of Kentucky, instructs the Grand Jury to 
admit negro testimony, they being citizens. 

15. New Territorial Government for Washington and the 

District of Columbia inaugurated. 
15. In the general fear of war China fortifies. 

15. Crispin picnic riot near New York, wounding a great 
many persons. 

16. The Senate orders the arrest of the two recalcitrant 
reporters, White and Ramsdell. 

16. A battle in Kelalhulereo, in Guatemala, in which forty 

persons were slain. 
16. Tornado at Chicago ; buildings fell and men killed. 
lY. A union depot for 14 railways, 297 by 1100 feet, the largest 

in the world, begun at St. Louis, Mo. 



Chronological Record^ 1871 — May. 29' 

lY. Riot at Scranton, Pa.; the military fire at the mob, and 
the death of three men occurs. 

18. Massachusetts Dental Society meet at Boston, who report 
13,000 dentists in the United States, and 1200 in New 
England. 

18. In Democratic Convention at Montgomery county, 0., 
Vallandigham first presents his "New Departure" plat- 
form ; 41 delegates accept it. 

18. General Diaz, with 800 men, threatens Panama, garri- 
soned by 900 men. 

18, 19. One hundred Indians kill seven men belonging to a 
train in Texas. 

19. Tampico, Mexico, captured, and the revolt ends. 

19. Bridge project— a single span of 1600 feet to cross the 
Hudson at Peekskill. 

19. New Brunswick Legislature condemn the Washington 
Treaty. 

19. Turkey, in hostile attitude, concentrates 50,000 troops 
at Shuma. 

19. Tornado in New Kent county, Va., that swept all mova- 
ble things before it, hail fell nine inches in depth, and 
human beings were knocked senseless by it ; crops were 
totally ruined. 

19. Forest fires rage in Ulster and Sullivan counties, N. Y,, 
and in Burlington county, N. J. 

20. Tehuantepec surveying expedition returns. 

20. Arizonian people report 200 citizens murdered by the 
Apaches. 

20. The Commune in desperation resolve to ruin the " beau- 
tiful city." 

20. Revolutionists in Guatemala capture Escuintla. 

21. 22. Versailles troops, after a terrible bombardment, force 
their way, 80,000 strong, into Paris. In three days 12,000 
people are slaughtered. 

21, Earthquake in all Ontario, Canada. 

21. An aerolite weighing twelve pounds fell at Searsmont, Me. 

21. Floods in Antioquia, New Grenada, cause losses that 
amount to more than a million of dollars. 

22. The first steamboat launched on Great Salt Lake. 

22. Reported foundering of the Webb at sea by collision, and* 

the loss of 13 lives. 
22. Bradford, Ont., consumed, 100 houses in ashes, all the 

business portion with every store burnt, 60 families out or 

house, and the destruction of $600,000. 
22. In Trumansburg, N. Y., 25 business places burnt; loss 

$100,000. 
22. The Pennsylvania coal mine strikes end to-diay, having: 

entailed a loss on the miners, railway comp^nifeS and canak 



30 The Black and Terrible Year. 

boats of from twenty millions to thirty millions of dollars, 

and much suffering. 
23. Telegraph cable completed from St. Thomas to St. Kitts 

Island, W. I.^ 
23, 26. 30 public buildings in Paris are fired by the Commune 

and mostly or totally burned. 

22. Archbishop Darboy and 64 priests shot dead. 

23. The revolutionist army, 18,000 strong, under Herresa is 
repulsed by Blanco in Venezuela, and hundreds perish. 

18-23. In South New Jersey a forest fire raged over forty 
thousand acres of land, ruining timber valued at $800,000. 

18-23. Forest fires in New Hampshire and on Long Island 
run over one hundred square miles of woods and fields. 

23-28. The city of Paris burnt by petroleum fires, that were 
kindled in eleven arrondissements. Thirty of the most 
costly and magnificent public buildings were badly dam- 
aged or utte.ly consumed, each doubtless costing on an 
avevage a million of dollars. The Louvre cost $6,000,000. 
The destruction of the warehouses involved a total loss of 
$10,000,000. The sum of $70,000,000 has been loaned to 
repair the ruined city. The total injury to the city was 
estimated to be eight hundred million of francs. 

23. In Japan a crew of 12 men died of starvation. 

24. The Anglo-American Washington Treaty ratified by the 
Senate, and the whole country rejoices, 

21-24. Civil war ends in Panama. 

24. Fires in the Shandakin Mountains, N. Y., burn over ten 

thousand acres of woodland. Loss $300,000. 
24, Thiers says: "We are the masters of Paris." 

24. International Convention of the Y. M. C. Association at 
Washington. One thousand members present, who tele- 
graph congratulations to Queen Victoria on her birth-day. 

25. The mountain Arizonian Indians declare war against the 
whites. 

26. The strange horse epidemic appears in New York city. 
24-26. The Sh.awangunk Mountain fires and the forest fires 

of Sullivan, Delaware, Ulster, Orance, &c., counties run 
over thousands of acres, and the loss by them is estimated 
to be $500,000. 

24-26. Terrible forest fires around Ottawa, Ont., with loss 
of $200,000 in timber. In Sussex county, N. J., and in 
Pike, Wayne, Monroe and Carbon counties, Pa., the loss 
is $300,000. 

26. Schooner Little Bell, founders on the New Foundland 
coast, and forty men go down with the vessel, leaving over 
thirty families in sorrow. 

^7. Eleven arrondissements on fire in Paris, and 50,000 peo- 
ple lie dead in her streets and dwellings. 



Chronological Record, 1871 — May. 31 

"27. Twelve Indians and one white man killed in a fight on 

the Missouri river. 
'21. The South Jersey fires now said to have run over 70,000 

acres of forest land. 
27. The Pittston, Pa., coal mine horror. _ Of 59 men in the 

mine, 21 were taken out dead, and six others were badly 

injured. 

27. Forest fire at Waverly and Lakeland, L. I., burnt over 
1000 acres with houses and barns. 

28. The potato bug appears in Wisconsin. 

26-28. In Essex, Clinton, Franklin and St. Lawrence coun- 
ties, N. Y., nearly 200 square miles of woods were burnt 
over, with the destruction of houses, barns, fences, &c. 

29. Ihe LanahanMethodisht-Book-Concern-Case comes be- 
fore the New York courts. 

29. Remarkable mirage seen at the river Firth, Scotland. 

30. No rain in New York since May 5. Intense heat, with 
terrible storms everywhere. 

30. Decoration day of the graves of 300,000 soldiers. 

31. Massachusetts Legislature adjourns— been in session 148 
days, and passed 399 acts and 95 resolves. 

23-30. In Paris 3000 Versailles troops and ten thousand 
Communists are destroyed. Twenty thousand of the latter 
were imprisoned. Letter writers assert that during this 
last week some 50,000 or 60,000 people perished around 
and in the city. The city was damaged to the value of 
800,000,000 francs by the bombs and flames. The total 
casualties to the Versailles army was 7514. 

30. Terrific hail storms on all the Upper Hudson, N. Y. — the 
stones killed birds, broke glass, ^and destroyed crops. 

31. In addition: the flood stood over thousands of acres in 
Louisiana this month; 50 persons in the United States lost 
their lives in some calamitous manner. Of fires, Reading, 
Pa., had a $100,000 fire; Cincinnati, 0., $200,000; Honesdale, 
Pa., $250,000; Bridgport, Conn., $100,000; Folsom, Cal., 
:$125.000; and Mobile, Ala., a $300,000 confiagration. A 
boiler explosion on a steamer on Magdalena river. South 
America, caused the death of 14 persons. By the sudden 
movement of an iceberg, near Newfoundland, 23 persons 
perished in the sea. To this list add the horrors of the second 
siege of Paris, involving the death of 22,000 (others say 40,- 
OOO) and the wounding of 25,000 of the Paris Commune, the 
total casualties to the Versailles army, which M. Thiers says 
amounted to 75,143, and the death by yellow fever of about 
26,000 persons since the year came in at Buenos Ayres, S. 
A., with the perhaps millions devoured by famine and plague 
in Persia. An earthquake completes the list. The city of 
Rhio, on the island of Bintang, the largest of the group of 



32 The Black and Terrible Year. 

Rhlo Islands, was visited by a convulsion that devastated the 
place, and caused the loss of 400 lives. The city has a popu- 
lation of 36,000, and is 50 miles from Singapore, India. It 
occurred between May 20 and 25. 



JtJINE. 

1. National Insurance Congress at New York adjourns. 
1. The French press nearly unanimous for a Republic. 
1. Great strike of miners, and mobs in California. 
1. Coreans attack the fleet of Commodore Rodgers in the- 

mouth of a river in Corea, and the fleet retires. 
1. Executions cease in Paris. 
1. Turkey borrows $30,000,000 for the purpose of preparing: 

for war. 
1. New South Wales expends $100,000 on fortifications, and 

borrows $1,800,000 for similar purposes. 
1. Unexampled floods in New South Wales. The Emma 

Patterson wrecked in a gale and six men drowned. 

1. The Rhea sunk by collision near New York. Eight per- 
sons drowned. 

2. Sentence of degradation on Cheney by Bishop Whitehouse. 
2. Governor Butler of Nebraska, now impeached, is removed 

from office. 
2. Rothschild of Frankfort offers to assume the entire debt 
of New York city. 

2. Extraordinary sulphurous cyclone near Mason, Illinois^ 
emitting an odor like ^burning sulphur a mile from its 
track. It was an inky-hued, revolving cloud, flashing and 
hissing, with electrical discharges like the sound of mus- 
ketry; 80 feet in width, and progressing three miles, plow- 
ing the earth to a depth of six inches, burning with intense 
heat everything in its path. 

2-6. A fearful storm of five days on the Gulf. All lower 
Galveston three feet under water; buildings and two miles 
of railroad track washed away; steamers and vessels are 
wrecked ; whole crews perished. Houston badly damaged. 
Wind 39 miles per hour. 

3. Ex-Congressman Bowen found guilty of bigamy. 

3. French Assembly vote a million of francs to rebuild the 
house of M. Thiers, burnt by the Commune. 

4. U. S. Army reduced to a peace footing of 35,284 men. 
4. Great flood in New Orleans. 

4. One of the broken English cables repaired. 
6. The 233d Anniversary of the Ancient and Honorable Ar- 
tillery Company at Boston. 



Chronological Record^ 1871 — June. 33 

5 Jewish Rabbinical Conference at Cincinnati, Ohio. 

5. International Typographical Union at Baltimore, Md. 

5. Sharp battle at San Juan, Haj'ti, and the town destroyed; 

5. Coal riot, demanding military interference, in Wales, Eng-. 

5. Strike and riot at Hornellsville, N. Y. 

5. Unusually high and injurious tide on the Massachusetts 
coast. 

5. Four fires to-day burnt up Waverly, N. Y., and other 
places, destroying $200,000, and at Cromwell, Ct., burning 
alive 30 cattle and 14 horses. 

4-15. For two weeks half the city of New Orleans under 
three and five feet of water. The damage was put at half 
a million dollars, but "could not be estimated." Twenty- 
five thousand people suffered. 

5. At San Juan, Hayti, a powder magazine was blown up and 
the place destroyed. 

6. Grand reception to Indian chiefs at Tremont Temple, 
Boston. 

6. Negro strikes and labor riot at Washington. 
6. Grand procession of 40,000 Sunday-school children at 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 

6. A railroad accident near Paris, France, destroyed the lives 
of 25 women, and wounded 50. 

7. The Legislature of New Hampshire convenes and organ- 
izes. 

7. Injunction in favor of the Boston and Maine Railroad v. 
the Eastern Railroad given by Judge Walter. 

7. Funeral of Archbishop Derboy at Paris, who with 64 hos- 
tages was murdered by the Commune. 

7. Incendiary fires in four places, at the same time, consume 
200 houses in Constantinople — "heavy losses''; and a 
$100,000 fire, with 25 families burned out, occurred at Dun- 
dee, also $100,000 fire at South Shields, Scotland. 

8. The Emperor of Russia and Duke Alexis visit William at 
Berlin. 

8. The great Methodist tent and its revival preachers invade 

Mormondom at Salt Lake City. 
8. Report of Russian victories in Asia. 

8, At Zarate in the (S. A.) Argentine Republic, during a 
frightful hurricane, real stones as large as goose eggs fell 
in a great shower, killing human beings, animals and birds, 
and causing much havoc. 

9. The Orleans Princes voted to a seat in the French Assembly. 
9. By the census of April 3, the population of London, now 

first stated, is 3,251,804. This gigantic city is 2000 years old. 
8. Iowa City had the most fearful storm " ever witnessed in 
this section." A furious forty minutes' burst of wind, rain 
3 



34 The Black and Terrible Year. 

and hail destroyed property valued at thousands. At 
Chatawa, La., a tornado occurred. 
]0. Unveiling of the Morse statue in Central Park, New York. 

10. In Corea, the American fleet attacks the treacherous 
enemy's forts, five of which are boldly stormed. 10,000 
Coreans fled, 481 cannons were captured, and some 500 
Coreans killed and wounded. The Americans lost three 
killed and nine wounded. 

11. Rev. Stephen Tyng (Epis.) opens his new church at New 
York, with a liberal platform. 

11. The city of Tampico, Mexico, stormed and taken at the 
point of the bayonet, and all the insurgents killed or cap- 
tured. 

11. Destructive tornado at Holden, Paxton, Oakdale, West 
Boylston and Wenham, Mass. 

11. Immense fires cover scores of square miles of forest in 
Maine. 

11. Eighty lives lost by the foundering of a vessel near 
Luckput, India coast. 

12. The Brazilian Chambers entertain a bill for the emanci- 
pation of all slaves in the Empire. 

12. The Gregoian calendar, in place of the Greek or Julian, 
adopted in Alaska, to bring Sunday right. 

12. Three millions feet of lumber, worth $100,000, burnt at 
North McGregor, Iowa. 

13. Corner stone of the new Odd Fellows' Hall laid in Boston, 
with 10,000 brothers in procession. 

13. Awful storms on the coast and inland at Labrador, and 
great destruction to property; fifty schooners swept out to 
sea and 300 men said to be lost. On the British coast, a 
steamer and 10 lives lost. At Aooch, on the coast of Scot- 
land, a boat capsized, and eight men and six women drowned. 

14. Inauguration day in New Hampshire. 

14. Constitutional Amendment bill defeated in Connecticut. 
14. 81 Deputies in the French Assemby proclaim in favor of 
Republicanism, 

14. A storm of unparalleled violence devastated Oregon, 
and the telegraph wires charged with fire. Poughkeepsie, 
N. Y., visited by a destructive hail storm. 

15. Preliminary Christian and Moral Science Congress held 
in Philadelphia. 

15-22. The city of Portland, Oregon, and an entire railway 
half overflown by a flood in the Columbia river. " Great 
damage." 

16. The 25th Anniversary of Pius IX. celebrated. The 
Protestant Queen of England sends him a telegraphic 
congratulation. 



Chronological Record^ 1871 — June. 35 

16. "Woodhull & Claflin" sue H. W. Beecher and The 
Christian Union for $250,000 damage. 

16. The triumphant entry into Berlin ; 360,000 strangers 
present. Von Roon made a Count, and Von Moltke made 
Field Marshal. Statue of Frederic William the 3d inaug- 
rated. Berlin in a blaze of glory and excitement. 

16. Enormous waterspout off Cape Cod, and an aurora that 
covered the entire heaveas. 

16. A terrible tornado that swept away Eldorado, Kansas, 
demolishing 100 houses and blowing a horse and wagon, 
into the air. "No such storm ever seen on the plain." 
Loss $100,000. 

17. 96th Anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill. Col. J. 
Fisk and the 9th N. Y. regiment in Boston. 

17. By census of 1870 the worth of the United States is thirty- 
one thousand millions of dollars, or $800 a head. 

17. In three weeks to date there were 18,000 Parisians tried 
by drumhead court-martial and ordered shot; this being 
900 a day. 

18. Thanksgiving in Germany. 

18. A telegram traveled on the wires from Hong Kong to 
New York, 15,000 miles, and was published the next morn- 
ing in the daily papers. 

18. A block of marble weighing 70 tons, the largest ever 
quarried in the United States, arrives at Boston from San 
Francisco. 

18. A plot discovered at Rome to assassinate the Pope on 
the 16th, at his jubilee. 

18. Tornado at Scranton, Iowa; one killed, seven hurt, and 
a house carried ten rods. So terrible were the electrical 
disturbances in and around Edinburgh, Scotland, to-day 
that 20 persons were killed by lightning, and an equal 
number of buildings struck and consumed. There were 
floods and hail, and at Shields the lightning discharged a 
loaded cannon — " never done before." 

19. National Musical Congress in Boston. 

19. The House of Lords reject the English "' Purchase bill." 
19. The bayonet used to quell riot at Brussels, and 68 Inter- 
nationals arrested. 
19. Earthquake at Staten Island, Long Island and New Jer- 
sey; houses rocked, bells rung, and dizziness produced. 
It lasted five minutes. 

19. Singular sinking of a canal bottom in Morris, N. J,, 
probably by the earthquake. The water for a mile and a 
half suddenly disappeared in great holes in and beside the 
canal. $20,000 damage done. 

20. Thiers reports the deficit in the French Treasury to ba 
737,000,000 francs. 



36 The Black and Terrible Year. 

20. A violent hurricane destroys the nutmeg and mace crop 
on the Bandana Islands, and the damage estimated at two 
millions of dollars. 

21. Twelve " Sections " of the Internationals are now re- 
ported for New York city. 

21-23. Three towns in Laguayra (?) captured by revolu- 
tionists, after desperate fighting. 

21. Chimneys thrown down by an earthquake* at Calistoga, 
Cal. Steamship Collingwood, to Bombay, is reported foun- 
dered, and 30 souls went down with her. 

21. The town of Damak, on the north coast of Java, totally 
destroyed by fire. 

22. Completed census of England and Wales ; population 
22,700,000; Ireland 5,400,000. 

18-22. In capturing Fort National, in Algiers, the French 

lost eight men killed and thirty wounded. 
22. San Domingo and Hayti still at war, and Venezuela in 

revolution. 

22. Near Leipsic in Germany, four car loads of German 
soldiers going home from the war were crushed, 23 persons 
killed outright and 42 wounded. 

23 Bismarck asks of France the first payment of the war 
indemnity of $1,000,000,000. 

23. Judge Barnard in the Lanahan-Carlton case, decides 
adverse to the former. 

23. A terrific thunder storm inflicted $50,000 damage on 
Chicago, and one, " the severest ever known here," destroyed 
the crops in two towns in St. Joseph county, Mich. Ice 
nine inches square, and pieces a foot long fell. 

23-30. The Rhine overflows Switzerland to a fearful extent; 
whole towns under water; damage, " millions." 

24. A difficulty between Secretary Boutwell and Commissioner 
Pleasonton commences. 

24. Corner stone of the new Capitol building laid at Albany, 

New York. 
24. War and Cannibalism going on in Fiji. 
24. Revolution entirely successful in Guatemala. 

24. In Barre, Ont., 18 buildings are burned; loss $T5,000. 

25. The Alabama claims footed up to $12,830,384 by the 
destruction of 234 vessels by rebel cruisers. 

25. In Paris 240,000 people are creatures of charity, and 
80,000 tenements empty. 

24-25. Government teamsters at Fort Hill attacked by 250 
Cheyennes; eight killed and three more burnt at the stake 
by the savages. 

26. An unseasonable snow-storm in Shields, Eng. 

26 Capt. C. F. Hall of the Polaris gives a reception at New 
York. 



Chronological Record^ 1871 — June. 37 

26. In the Methodist Book Concern trouble the Bishops 
decide for Dr. Lanahan, and he keeps his place. 

27. It is first announced that the Treaty was ratified by the 
British Government on the 17th inst. 

27. 9000 miners on a strike in Wales, Eng. 
27. 55th Anniversary of Harvard Divinity School. 
27. Deaths in London from small small pox weekly 240. 
"No mortality equal to it during this century." 

27. Near Augusta, Me., there were two killed and twelve 
wounded, and near Moselle, Mo., two more were killed and 
fourteen wounded by railroad accidents. 

28. Harvard and Williams College Commencements. 
28. Princeton and Brown University Commencements. 

28. The "City of Ragusa," twenty feet hj six feet, and of two 
tons burthen, reaches England, 80 days from New York. 

28. Seven ironmongers killed and thirty wounded at Silicia, 
in Prussia, at a riot. 

28. Boiler explosion at Staffordshire, Eng., destroying six 
persons, and wounding and maiming 19. 

.28. In Centreville, N. Y., a black and red, rolling, cyclonic 
cloud or wind carried a barn roof half a mile, carried apple 
trees into the air as far as one could see, flashed electric 
fire, rolling over and over with a frightful roar, and pre- 
senting a remarkable phenomenon. On the same day a 
gigantic column of fire and cloud moved over the earth 
near Springfield, Mo., prostrating and rending everything 
in its way with frightful fury. " It was the most terribly 
grand spectacle ever beheld." " Scarcely in the memory 
of man have tornadoes been more frequent or more fierce, 
or floods more destructive," said the New York Times. 

29. In six hours 4,500,000 francs were subscribed to the new 
French loan, Paris taking 2,500,000. 

29. Grand review at Longchamps of 100,000 French troops. 

29. Capt. Hall and the Polaris leave New York for the North 
Pole. 

30. Great Central Union Depot at New York completed. 

30. Juarez re-elected President of Mexico by a majority of 
122 over all rivals. 

30. The photo-lithographic process adopted at the U. S. Pen- 
sion Office. 

30. At Mussel Shell, on the Plains, in a desperate fight of 
three men with thirty-five Indians, eleven of the savages 
were slain. 

30. Peace reported in Hayti. 

There should be added to this month's record, seventeen per- 
sons drowned, twenty-seven injured and five killed on rail- 
ways in this country; four burnt to death, and four others 
drowned in Scotland; twenty-four cars thrown into a 



38 The Black and Terrihle Year. 

river in Ontario, Canada ; one hundred persons nearly 
poisoned to death at a wedding in Iowa; and the strange 
case of Rev. E. A. Sampson (a colored minister) at Pine 
Bluff, Ark., who was killed by lightning while preaching, 
and the coffin in which he was being conveyed to the grave 
was also shattered by the electric fire in a sudden bolt 
from the sky. 



JULY. 

1. The King of Burmah proclaims internal free trade. 

1. Costa Rica projects a railway from San Jose, the capital, 

to Limon on the Atlantic, to cost $7,000,000. 
1-12. Germany busy with gigantic preparations for war. 

1. *] he London Times announces that at a recent whirlwind 
or cyclone in India, men, herds, houses and trees were 
carried high into the air and dashed down to the earth a 
mile or two away, every living thing being instantly killed. 

2. Election day in all France. 

2. Foreign ministers arrive at Rome and are installed. 

2. The Eunomia, a Greek man of war, exploded her maga- 
zines in the Archipelago, killing at once 40 persons, 
wounding or burning every person on board, and destroy- 
ing the ship. 

S. Peace in Cabul is announced. 

3. The King of Italy reviews his troops in Rome. 

3. The Missionary ship " Morning Star " arrives at Honolulu. 
3. Blanco and Coloradesin Uruguay having desperate conflicts-. 
3. At Clermont, France, a wrecked railway train caused the 

death of six and wounded twenty persons. 
3. Four days' forest fires ruin everything within thirty miles 

around Port Elgin, Ont., and the woods all in flame in the 

Ottawa region. 
3. A bridge fell and a train with it at Harpeth River, Tenn.^ 

crushing to death 15 and wounding 23 persons. 

3. Hurricane at Wheeling, W. Va., causes great damages. 

4. National M. E. Camp Meeting opens at Round Lake, N. Y. 
4. Proposed Mormon military parade at Salt Lake City broken 

up by the U. S. authorities. 
4. The British war ship Rinald attacked the Malay pirates in 

Singapore river, destroyed five vessels and some forts, and 

burnt part of a town to ashes. 
4-5. At Kohl, Japan, a typhoon raised the sea four feet above 

the highest water, wrecked the Pride of the Thames and 

drowned four of her men, destroyed eight vessels and 60O 



Chronological Record, 1871 — July. 39 

small boats, caused the loss of 400 lives of natives, and 
the destruction of $500,000 worth of property. 

5. The Great Washington Treaty proclaimed by President 
Grant, and the nation jubilant. 

5. Frightful rain and wind in Nebraska. It lifted a train 
from the track and dashed it 20 feet away, causing the 
death of two, and injury of 15 passengers. Horrible water 
spout over three towns in Nevada, washing down rocks 
upon the railway, and throwing off a freight train. 

5. A third part of the city of Yreka, Cal., consumed by fire, 
loss of property, $300,000. 

5-Y. Awful thunder, lightning, and hail in Scotland, with 
heavy damaging floods. "At Lindean Station the fall of 
hail was so heavy and the darkness so great that the engine 
could not be seen from the guard's van. 

6. The French Assembly by a law requires "caution money" 
of the press ; vote, 317 to 199. 

6. Prince de Joinville declares for the "Republic." 
6. President Grant visits New York and is serenaded. 

6. Great destruction caused by a tropical storm at Mounds- 
ville, Va., and at Portsmouth. 

Y. French army reorganized, 320,000 strong. 

7. 300 Ku-Klux indicted by Grand Jury at Oxford, Miss. 

7. 10,000 Hibernian Irish resolve in council to break up the 

"Orange" procession on the 12th, and fail. 
7. The Tichborne case at London adjourned to November 7. 
7. Ship Fathel Rahamon foundered near Bombay, and 25 

persons perished. 

7. Alarming freshets on four rivers in England; " loss heavy." 
Unusuall.y severe thunder and lightning around London, 
and men, houses and churches destroj^ed. 

8. Paris efiFects a building loan of 600.000,000 francs. 

8. The Colorado potato bug invades Michigan and Western 

Ontario. 
8. Paris borrows one hundred millions of dollars to repair 

the ruins caused by siege, war, shell and fire. 
8. Blanco's forces in Venezuela are overpowered, and the 

havoc of battle and war is deplorable. 
8. At Berlin, Out., 100 Sunday School children, by the 

breaking of a floor, were precipitated into the vats of a 

tannery, and one drowned and many injured. 

8. Tital wave on Lake Superior, cause unknown, and the 
first occurrence of the kind. At Duluth the water was 
forced into the canal for half an hour at the speed of a 
horse, and the lake rose and fell in tide waves all the 
morning. 

9. New York Roman Catholics warned b}^ the Bishop and 
priests to keep the peace July 12th, 



40 The Black and Terrible Year. 

9. Quesada with 200 Venezuelan troops lands in Cuba to aid 
the insurgents, and engagements follow. 

S. Tornado at North Bend, Neb., and hail four inches in 
diameter. A hurricane of fifteen minutes at Elmira, N. Y., 
with ruin of everything in its track. Terrific wind and rain 
at Dayton, 0., and vicinity, without a precedent in irresist- 
ible power. 54 buildings were demolished or damaged,- 11 
persons were killed and 50 wounded, while the damage was 
estimated at $1,000,000. A mirage seen at Gloucester, 
Mass.; bays, headlands, ships and cities visible in the air. 
Tornado at Syracuse, N. Y.; loss $100,000. _ 

9. At Ashton, England, a pond, around which 40 persons 
stood fishing, was struck by lightning. It appeared like a 
broad ring of liquid fire around all the margin, and then 
suddenly contracted itself into a narrow compass in the 
centre of the water and disappeared, leaving the pond 
violently agitated, some of the anglers were thrown down 
insensible. 

10. Semi-centennial and Commencement at Amherst, Mass. 
10. New England editorial excursion to Montreal; 400 mem- 
bers of the press, &c. 

10. Sixteen thousand Communist prisoners released at Ver- 
sailles. 

10. Fight with Ku-Klux in North Carolina; three of the 
sheriff's party killed and three wounded. 

10. It is announced that the French ship Souvenance is lost 
on the African coast, near Good Hope, and all on board — 
hundreds — were lost. 150 dead bodies had washed ashore 
from the wreck. 

11 The French Government indemnify Switzerland to the 
amount of 2.000.000 francs. 

11. Superintendent Kelso, of New York, forbids the Orange 
display, and Gov. Hoffman revokes his order. 

11. France pays to Switzerland a war bill of $338,000. 

12. " The Protestant League of America" formed. 

12. In Australia millions of dollars have been spent to fortify 
the countrj'' against a fancied Fenian raid. 

12. Terrible conflict in New York between the Roman Catho- 
lic Irish and the National Guards and police. The ri®ters 
attacked the Orange procession, were fired into, and dis- 
persed by bullet and bayonet. vSixty-two persons lost their 
lives, and 137 were wounded; of the whole number 20 were 
Guards and four were women. 

12-14. The Labrador calamity fully reported. Twenty-three 
families became extinct, twenty-three dwelling houses were 
destroyed, ninety-three men, women and children perished, 
three hundred and twety-five fishing smacks were lost, and 
forty stores and $1,500,000 worth dried fish were ruined. 



Chronological Eecord, 1871 — July. 41 

13. Amherst confers LL.D. upon Horace Greeley. 

13. First narrow gauge locomotive ever built in America 
shipped from Philadelphia to Pike's Peak. 

13. A powder magazine exploded at Vincennes, France ; the 
east part of the city shaken and damaged as by an earth- 
quake; six persons killed and forty injured. 

13. St. Joseph, Mo., visited by a tornado; houses were un- 
roofed and blown flat in every part of the city, five persons 
killed, many injured, and the damage was put at $200,000. 

14. The editorial excursions break up at Newport, Vermont. 
14. Haj^ti proffers Senator Sumner a medal, and it is refused. 
14. The Austrian Minister announces his country already for 

fighting, having 650.000 men under arms. 
12-14. In a battle in Cuba 100 insurgents are killed. 

14. The Government arsenal at Rio Janeiro, Brazil, said to 
be totally destroyed by fire; loss $1,500,000. Hail as large 
as hen's eggs fell at Rutland, Vt. 

15. The ten members of the American Evangelical Alliance 
favorably received in Russia by Gortschakoff, and present 
their petition 

15. At a recent fight in Arizona 13 Indians and one soldier 
were killed. 

15. Terrible fire at Riga; 30 vessels loaded with corn and 
hemp destroyed, with several millions loss. 

16. Thermometer at Denver, Colorado, 105° in the shade. 
16. Cholera ravages Russia, and appears in Poland. 

16, Anti-Roman Catholic Socialist riot in Vienna. 

16. Hurricane over New York city. Tornado at Louisville, 
Ky. Desolating hail-storm at Peterborough, N. H. Fear- 
ful storm, with great damage, at Vineland, N. J. The 
most destructive thunder, lightning, wind and rain storm 
ever known in Huron county, Ohio, entailing a loss of 
$100,000. Destructive hail storm over five towns in North- 
western Massachusetts, "the severest ever seen there." 
In Sullivan county, N. Y., and Wayne and Pike counties, 
Pa., sleighs were run over the hail it was so deep. $400,000 
would not cover to-day's damages. 

16. Petroleum explosion and fire at Rheims, France, caused 
extensive damage, 50 persons lost their lives or were injured. 

17. The Grand Jury indict the two Tribune correspondents 
for refusing to divulge the treaty seller. 

17. A hundred poor families burnt out at South Boston, 
Mass., crops, houses, barns, etc., consumed by woods fires 
fires at Sutton, Canada; a thunder-bolt from a clear sky 
fell on a farmer in Norwalk, Ohio, and killed him; and the 
Nahmor said to have foundered in the Indian Ocean where- 
by 30 persons lost their lives. 



42 The Black ayid Terrible Year. 

18. Commencement at Hamilton College, N. Y., and at 
Dartmouth, N. H. 

18. The Apaches are invaded by five companies of U. S. 
Calvary and fifty Mexicans under General Cook. 

18. Great winds and rains at Augusta, La., destroyed pro- 
perty amounting to $50,000, and a storm at Memphis "sur- 
passing in fury and destructiveness everything known for 
years," wrecked a railway train, killed an engineer, and 
wounded 15 persons. 

18. At Point au Petri, a city of 12,000 population, on Gaud- 
aloupe Island, an incendiary fire consumed 16 out of the 
21 blocks in the place, with wharves, shipping, etc., 10,000 
people were made houseless and paupers, and the loss was 
many millions of dollars. Nearly 2000 buildings burnt, 
and the suffering great. 

19, the 62d victim of the New York riot dies. 

19. The scientific report of Cox-Huggins-Crookes on Spirit- 
ualism is published this month. 

19. Earthquake at Wolfboro', N. H., the most violent ever 
known there; eight shocks occured, twenty chimneys were 
thrown down and as many more damaged. The shock was 
felt all through New England. 

20. The Queen cancels the royal warrant legalizing the pur- 
chase of army commissions. 

20. Since the 15th France pays to Germany the sum of 462,- 

000,000 francs. 
20, A week of riot on the railroad at Nannet, N. Y. 

20. Locomotive explosion at Coal Pit, Pa., killing six men^ 
and the machine thrown 900 feet. Destructive conflagration 
in the city of Libson and lives lost. Truckee in California 
again burnt and property valued at half a million in these 
fires. 

21. Negro riot and insurrection put down in Jamaica Island. 

21. At the Ingleside Regatta Amherst defeats Harvard. 

22. The most remarkable aurora ever witnessed observed at 
Springfield, Mass., and elsewhere. 

22. German troops begin to evacuate France. 

22-26. Extraordinary "Passion Play" performed at Ober- 

Amergau, Germany. 
22. In Guatemala the revolutionists take the capital. 

22. An explosion at the U. S. arsenal at Washington shook 
the city, and a fire followed. Loss $100,000. In San 
Francisco a disastrous conflagration consumed $250,000. 
A water-spout in Nevada destroj^ed a railway track. 

23. Prince Napoleon ordered to quit French soil. 

23. Enormous forest fires in the Cascade Mountains, Cal. 
The Jennie burnt off the Battery, New York, loss $125,000. 



Chronological Becord, 1871 — July. 4S 

First train for three months over the Jackson Railroad, 
Miss., floods having swept the road all away for 13 miles. 

23-31. In a single storm at Coney Island 1500 feet of a beach 
to a depth of 80 feet was washed away. 

24. United States Scientic Expedition to Brazil leaves New 
York. 

24. Nineteen colored citizens of Hayti arrested and impris- 
oned for cannibalism. 

24. Off Good Hope the Nickerson and six men went down. 

25. The ll4th planet discovered by Professor Peters. 

25. The Miners' League seize the mines in Amador county, 

California 
25. Heart rending account of the famine in Persir reach the 

civilized world. 
25. Negro riot in Porto Rico and martial law proclaimed. 

25. The greatest storm at Long Branch known for 20 years. 
Fifteen buildings valued at $200,000 burnt at Frederickton, 
N. B. Collision of freight and gravel cars at Edwardsville» 
111.; 10 laborers killed and 20 injured. 

26. New Spanish ministry formed, with Zorilla President. 
26. .Mazzini warns Italy of the Internationals, and declares 

them atheists. 

26. St. Helena Island nearly ruined and made uninhabitable 
by unprecedented rain and flood; "the greatest ever 
known;" 500 people washed out of their houses, and the 
damage was irreparable. 

27. Since the 16th the New York Times has opened its deadly 
batteries on the "Tammany Ring," which to-day seeks to 
buy and bribe it, but fails. 

27. Disturbance at Canton, China. 

27. Three children consumed in the extensive forest fires at 
New Lowell, Ont. 

28. The Polaris heard from at Newfoundland. 

28. Gilmore's World Peace Jubilee programme published to- 
day. 

28. New York merchants propose to resist any further tax- 
ation by its corrupt municipality. 

28, Eugenie, by letter, urges the Czar to be the friend of 
poor France. 

28. The Edinburgh Review predicts war between Russia and 
Austria. 

18. The State Engineer reports 298 human lives sacrificed on 
the railroads of the State of New York during the last year. 

29. Jules Favre retires from the French Premiership. 

29. Scathing exposure of frauds by the New York Times. 
29. Lord Mayor ol London's banquet. 

29. Political riot in Goldsboro', N. C; two killed and manj 
wounded. 



44 The Black and Terrible Year. 

29. An Edinburgh paper reports 22 persons drowned in the 
two weeks ending to-day ; all by miner accidents. At 
Navasota, Texas, a railroad slaughter killed seven persons 
and wounded twelve. 

30. Indignation meeting in London to declare against the 
Prince Arthur annuity. 50,000 people at the meeting, and 
the government dare not interfere. 

30. The Westfield explodes her boilers at New York. No 
such calamity ever before happened in the city. 400 per- 
sons were on board — men, women and children ; the death 
of 106 was caused. 111 were scalded, maimed, burned, 
wounded, etc., and the Company's loss was $500,000. 

30. A tidal wave, the first ever seen on Lake Winnipisseogee, 
N. H., full five feet high. 

30. At a hotel in Atlantic City, N. J., 30 persons were pois- 
oned nearly to death. 

30. Lightning struck a shed in Birmingham, Eng., where 20 
school children had taken refuge, and one was killed and 
nine badly injured. 

3L Prince of Wales hissed in Dublin. 

3L Hail fell so deep at Albion, Wis., that sleighs were run 
over it ; stones two or three inches in diameter. There 
was ruin of glass, corn, tobacco, etc., to the amount of 
$250,000. 

-31. Persia, is reported to have lost fully one-third of her 
10,000,000 population by famines, plague, flood, war, etc A 
condition of things that has "no rival in horror since the 
plague of A. D. 1299. 



AXJOUST. 



1-9. Fiji establishes a responsible government and holds a 

criminal court. 
1. Outside Christendom to-day there are 4,000 stations or 

centres of missionary work, 2,500 congregations, 273,000 

communicants, and 1,350,000 nominal Christians. 
1. Charles Cleveland, a city missionary of Boston, aged 100, 

called on and prayed with James P. Rogers of Boston, 

aged 102 years — a rare event. 
1. The Burlington, Vt., University votes to admit women to 

its privileges. 
1. The cholera appears in England and France. 
1. A plot discovered to burn Marseilles, Lyons, and Bourges; 

revolt feared, and a panic in South France. 
1. Terrible floods in Switzerland. Great hail, destroying 



Chronological Record^ 1871 — August. 45- 

crops and fruit at Walla Walla, Oregon. Whole towns sub- 
merged. 

2. Unusual fall of rain in the Districts of Tientsing, China, 
for a week past. On the 4th the Grand Canal and Peiho 
river burst their banks. By the 6th, 8th, the town, having 
a population of 500,000, was completely inundated ; hun- 
dreds of horses, thousands of cattle, and 3,000 soldiers 
perished in the waters. The deluge continued, causing 
terrible suffering. 

3. The Prime Ministers of France, England, Austria, and 
Germany hold a conference on the International question. 

3. Fraudulent sale of $9,000,000 Rockford and St. Louis 

bonds at Frankfort, Germany. 
3. The Sultan sends 2,000 troops to quell insurrection in 

Albania. 

3. An American brig wrecked in a gale on the Pacific, and 
twelve persons died of starvation. 

4. The Governor-General of Canada proclaims against 
Canadian-Cuban filibusters. 

4. The New York Chamber of Commerce declines Hall and 

Connolly's invitation to " audit accounts." 
4. The Central Pacific Railroad Company project a five-mile 

tunnel through the solid granite of the Sierra Nevada. 
4. Formidable Indian raid in Montana; two whites killed. 
6. Italian demonstration at San Francisco in honor of United 
Italy. 

6. Bloody political riot in Dublin. One hundred of the mob 
and police injured. 

7. His Royal Highness, Albert and party, leave Dublin amid 
hisses, but no cheers. 

Y. Trial of the Communists begins at Paris. 

7. A tornado at Winneconne, Wis., tore down half the 
houses, prostrated thirty chimneys ; churches, lumber, and 
grain ruined; a steamboat capsized, two men killed, and 
50,000,000 feet of logs let loose. 

8, The Indemnification bill for the people of France becomes 
a law. Ballot bill passes the House of Commons, Eng. 

8. The most terrible thunder and lightning storm at Rich- 
mond, Va., known for years. Nitro-glycerine in the Hoo- 
sac tunnel exploded by lightning, and three men killed. 
Damaging floods in Northern Vermont, with hail and hur- 
ricane over Northern New York and Northern Vermont. 

9. Sir Walter Scott National Festival at Edinburgh. 
9 Another new planet discovered by Watson. 

9. The Sandwich Islands devastated by the severest hurri- 
cane ever felt there. All the orange groves destroyed, and. 
120 houses blown down. 



46 The Black and Terrible Year. 

^-12. At twenty-five observatories in France were seen at 

night 10,000 meteors of the August group. 
10. The National Labor Party in session at St. Louis, Mo. 
10. The House of Lords, Eng., reject the Ballot bill, by a 

majority of 49. 
10. Hard battles and brilliant French victories reported for 

Algiers. 

10. It is officially stated that in Buenos Ayres that from Feb- 
ruary to May, of a population of 180,000, from 75,000 to 
100,000 persons were attacked with yellow fever, and 25,000 
died. 

11. The first train passes through Mt. Cenis tunnel. 
11. Gigantic military preparations go on in Russia. 

11. Frightful explosion of gun cotten at Stowe Market, Eng., 
causing the death of twenty-four persons, and serious in- 
jury to seventy-two others. 

11-12. At the city of Tabreez, Persia, a hail, wind, and 
thunder storm caused a wreck and deluge such as never 
was seen there before. Whole villages were swept off, and 
crops ruined. At Tabreez 1,000 houses and 1,700 lives 
were destroyed. Besides this calamity, the death rate of 
Tabreez this week from famine, is from 300 to 900 daily ! 

12. The Emperors of Germany and Austria meet in confer- 
ence at Weis. 

12. Orange riot in Londonderry, and cavalry and police 
charge upon the mob. 

12. A large meteor passed over Montreal, leaving a fire-train 
visible for ten minutes. 

13. Non-sectarian schools established in Alsace and Lor- 
raine. 

13. The forests of Algiers set on fire by rebel Arabs. 

14. The 106th Westfield victim dies! 

14. New York takes the Massachusetts Bay Regatta Prize. 
14. Revolution is successful in Gautemala, and a new order 
succeeds under Granados. 

14. The Chautaugue explodes boilers at Whitney's Landing, 
N. Y. All on board, 40 persons, were thrown into the air 
some 300 feet. Eight killed and 14 wounded. The Pitts- 
ton, Pa., coal mine horror occurred, and 17 miners were 
suffocated to death by the gas. 

12-14. Great fire in the city of Valparaiso. 

15. Dr. Hall heard from at Holsteinberg, Sweden, still 1,000 
miles from the pole (July 31.) 

15. Centennial anniversary of the birthday of Walter Scott 

celebrated everywhere. 
15. The great Mohammedan insurrection in North China is 

still furious and formidable, and half a million of men are 

fighting. 



Chronological Eecord, 1871 — August. 47 

35. Revolutionary sj^mptoms, fears and panic in Paris. 
15. A bloody election riot at Newton, Kansas, causing the 
death of four, and injury of five men. 

15. In Ontario hundreds of square miles of valuable forest 
are burnt over ; also destructive fires in the pine woods of 
Wisconsin and Michigan. 

16. Japan making vast internal improvements. 

16. Twentieth annual meeting of the American Science 

Association at Indianapolis, Ind. 
16. A $4,000,000 land robbery job turns up in Indiana. 
16. Telegraphic communication opened with Japan. 
16. Ninety fourth anniversary of the Battle of Bennington, 

Vermont. 
16. Nail Manufacturers' National Convention, Pittsburg, Pa. 

16. Steamship Lodona, from New York to New Orleans, 
foundered off the Florida coast. Of 82 on board, 21 were 
drowned, and cargo and ship lost, valued at $300,000. 

lY. Miles Standish Consecration at Duxbury, Mass. 

17. Russia's reply to the Evangelical Deputation is printed. 
IT. The Queen's name ferociously hissed at a Dublin ban- 
quet, and a toast to her is scorned. 

1*7. Indian depredations in South Utah, and a war on the 
tapis. 

17. The Arno in Italy overflows, causing immense ruin of 
crops. Terrible hail at Richmond, Ind. Eight horses con- 
sumed by fire at Charlestown, Mass. A recent shower of 
meat in Los Angeles, Cal. 

18. The Internationals of Spain openly avow hostility to the 
Government; 7,000,000 of this Order in the world. 

18. Roman Catholic outbreak against Protestants at Morelia, 
Mexico. The mob caused riot, fires, and death, and are 
put down by the troops. 

18-19. Terrific gale and rain in Georgia and South Carolina, 
and great damage to crops, houses, telegraph, etc. Nine 
inches of rain in forty eight hours. 

19. Vast and numerous sun spots seen this week. 

19-21. Extraordinary and unprecedented flight of millions of 
butterflies, from 100 to 500 feet in the air, seen for three 
days at Hartford, Conn. 

20. The Mission Indians in South Carolina at war, and 50 U. 
S. soldiers dispatched thither. 

20, 21. Two hundred Indians ravage and murder in Arizona 
and California. 

20. Russia, alarmed at German military progress says she is 
in the condition of France after '"Sadowa." 

20. Incendiary fires burn 50 buildings at Virginia City, Ne- 
vada; loss $150,000. The army worm, worse than ever be- 
fore, ravages the richest cotton fields of the South. 



48 The Black and Terrible Year. 

21. Prorogation of the British Parliament and the Queen's 
speech. England is at peace with all. 

21. Puerto Plata (population 6,000) in San Domingo burnt; 
loss $800,000. In a gale, thirty buildings burnt at Williams- 
port, Pa.; loss 225,000. Lexington, Ky., a $50,000 fire. 
Warsaw, Ind., 13 buildings, and $50,000. At Newark, N. 
J., a fire of $80,000. Total in a day, $1,205,000. 

20-21. Awful hurricane over all the Antilles. On St. Thomas 
Island — size 5 by IT miles— of a population of 12,000, 
6,000 were made houseless, and 150 killed and mangled. 
15 vessels were wrecked or injured. An earthquake accom- 
panied. At Antigua every estate was damaged ; 30 per- 
sons were killed and 100 wounded; all the ships wrecked. 
Abaco Island was swept through by the sea and made two 
islands, and scores drowned. At Turks Island there was 
earthquake and hurricane. At Tortola an earthquake and 
the storm made 7,000 people homeless. At St. Kitto 800 
houses were destroyed and 40 estates ruined. Jamaica, 
Island was shaken by an earthquake. The calamity caused 
the destruction of hundreds of lives, and perhaps ten 
million of dollars worth of property, 

22. From the 5th to date (17 days) 300 earthquakes were ex- 
perienced at Iquique, Peru, some very damaging. The 
English steamer Prince of Wales foundered off the Asiatic 
coast, and 50 lives were lost. A storm-burst occurred in 
Nebraska, quite damaging. 

22. At Ihaugara, in India, on the hills, a cloud-burst and 
rain-torrent was followed by a thunderbolt that rent and 
tore the earth in a vast chasm, and all the huts there, with 
the inmates, fifty or sixty persons, were swallowed up in 
the pit. The Times, of India, says " such a catastrophe 
has never been known in Sind.' 

23. It is decided to prosecute the Tammany thieves. 

23. Kegatta at St. John, N. B ; 50,0 people present, and 
Renforth, of the Tyne crew, falls dead at the oar. 

23, 24. The entire New York press demand that the city ac- 
counts be published at once. 

23. A French steamship and cargo consumed at Marseilles 
loss $500,000. A tornado at New Haven, Conn. 

23. Storms in South Hungary of unknown severity, caused 
disastrous and extensive flood that bring a wide-spread 
ruin and misery. Barnate half under water, crops gone, 
and dismay of the people. 

24. At Bologna, Italy, a church full of people is struck by 
lightning and 32 persons, mostly women and children, were 
either killed or injured. 

24. Strange flight southward of myriads of peculiar flies 






Chronological Becord^ 1871 — August. 49 

supposed to be the pestilence fly, seen at Philadelphia. 
" Had every appearance of a snow-storm." 

24. The English ship Leander foundered at sea and all on 
board, twenty-one persons, wei-e lost. Two others lost off 
Cape Horn. A schooner sunk and eight lives lost in the 
British channel. At Polack in South Russia 500 houses 
are destroyed by incendiary fires, and a fierce typhoon at 
at Yokohama did immense damage. 

24. The Governor of Montana says an Indian war threatens. 

24. France votes in Assembly to disband the National Guards. 

24. Extensive Pension frauds discovered at Washington. 

25. The unusual phenomenon of a tidal wave at New Bedford, 
Mass., the see ebbing and flowing at intervals of fifteen 
minutes with great feloeity. The Annita and eleven men 
sunk by Ihe steamship Java. 

25. Conflict between police and people at Rome, and several 

killed. 
25. Battle between Reds and Whites in Uruguay, and the 

Government troops defeated, with four guns captured and 

250 killed. 
25. Great Italian Unity demonstration in New York. 

25. Duluth canal opening. 

26. In India, at Kundoorna, ten men are murdered by the 
Nuggurs. 

26. A Carlist invasion of Madrid threatened, and a defence 
of the city inaugurated. 

26. Whirlwind at South Amherst, Mass., and in Chemung 
county, N. Y., both very destructive. Lightning struck a 
hall full of people at Clifford, Pa., killed one, seriously 
injured five, and shocked hundreds of persons. Terrific 
hurricane for 20 hours in the Gulf, the coast strewn with 
wrecks. Tornado at Tallahassee, Fla., for three days, with 
a cataract of rain; Jacksonville two feet under water; the 
cyclone moves up the Atlantic ; tornado in Boston and 
vicinity; every town on the coast devastated; tornado at 
Laconia, N. H., and at Labette, Kansas. This cyclone 
doubtless destroyed $1,000,000 of property. 

26- All the shores of Michigan seem to be a vast line of con- 
flagration, and the smoke so dense as to hinder navigation 
and hide the light of the sun. 

26. The Revere railroad horror seven miles from Boston. 
Eighty-three persons crushed, boiled, roasted, and wounded ; 
33 died and 50 were injured. The company's loss and cost 
$225,000. Railway collision at Westport, Pa., killed and 
wounded 20 persons. Railway accident at Williamsport, 
Pa., killed 6, wounded 20, ruined two engines and nine 
cars. 

4 



50 The Black and Terrible Year. 

21. A Prussian-Italian secret treaty is announced. 

27. In Uruguay, Blanco is crushed and amnesty is pro- 
claimed. 

21. The steamer Ocean Wave, with 200 souls on board, at 
Mobile, Ala., exploded boilers, and 70 persons were either 
killed or badly injured. At Lamia, in Turkey, lightning 
struck and exploded a powder magazine , the thunder of 
Ihe detonation shook and nearly destroyed the entire 
place ; people, panic stricken, fled to the country. 

28. Dr. Livingston again said to be " alive and well." 
28. Capt. Hall reported at Disco, Greenland, Aug. 17. 

28. Government troops win in numerous battles in Vene- 
zuela. 

28. Reported Alliance of Germany, Austria, and Italy at 
Gastein to oppose Russia. 

28. By explosions, wrecks, and collisions in Great Britain 
to-day nearly 30 persons lost their lives. Five sharp 
earthquake shocks at Calcutta. So terrible were these 
calamities that a sober Boston journal was led to say — 
"There is an accumulation of horrors. Such crises almost 
make us lose faith in the orderly regulation of mundane 
affairs, as if some derangement had crept into the forces 
of nature. It is as if the wrath of heaven were added to 
the culpable carelessness of man." But all this was only 
the beginning of this year's sorrows. 

29. Aquatic carnival at Halifax, and the Taylor- Winship 
crew win. 

29. News that all the Yabra villages in Algiers are destroyed 
by the rebels. 

29. Great losses by rain and floods in Central New York and 
in Maine. The next day there was the greatest storm of 
thunder and lightning ever known at Great Falls and at 
Dover, N. H 

30. Spain decrees amnesty to all political offenders. 

30. Deadly conflict between soldiers and citizens at Meridian, 
Miss. 

31, The powers congratulate M. Thiers on the prolongation 
of his Presidential term. 

31. A frightful tornado, the severest in twenty years, devas- 
tated the North Sea and all the Scandinavian coasts. The 
sea was strewn with debris, and in the Categat alone there 
v/ere fifty wrecks. During the single month over 200 lives 
were lost by accident in the United States, and over 120 

J persons injured by railway cars, besides ihose already 
named. Fire at East Boston on the 2d burnt $135,000; in 

. New York and Chicago on the 18th, $100,000; Amboy, III., 
the 25th, $140,000; Jackson, Mich-, the 28th, $100,000. 
In Drury Lane, London, a very destructive fire on the 



Chronological Record, 1871 — September, 51 

30tli, and a petroleum fire at Trieste on the 31st caused 
heavy damage. In Russia the Nihilists destroyed by fire 
in two weeks property valued at $14,000,000. South China 
-was parched and dried up, and the drouth visited the whole 
valley of the Mississippi and Missouri, while in Texas 
-cattle died for want of water. 



sei?te:m:ber,. 



1. Sale of Imperial property begins at Paris. 

1. The Icelandic Parliament is di>solved, and an absolutist 

government inaugurated by Denmark. 
1. European Russia entirely overrun with cholera. 
1. Italy declines joining the Gastein Conference. 
1. Vesuvius in eruption. The Geysers of Iceland near Hecla 

become violently agitated; one threw up a column of 

water eight feet in diameter to a hight of 84 feet. 
1-10. The Canadian shores of Lake Huron all ablaze with 

gigantic forest fires; traffic impeded and lumber destroyed 

worth millions. 

1. Floods near Canton, China. AtTientsing there is an area 
of flat country embracing 20,000 square miles under water 
and 1,000 people said to be drowned. ' 

2. Anniversary of Sedan celebrated in Germany. 

2. Indictmentof the "Westfield's" owners for manslaughter. 

2. A typhoon at Macao destroyed the lives of over 300 Chi- 
nese; 12 vessels wrecked; ship Courier and crew lost. 

3. Grand Duke Alexis leaves Cronstadt in the Svetland. 

3. Rumored poisoning of Chinese by foreigners at Hong 
Kong occasions much alarm for the latter. 

3. Eight hundred men under Blanco attack the city of Boli- 
var, S. A., and capture it with a loss of 125 men on both 
sides. 

3. (Sun.) Fenian meeting of 100,000 people in Dublin, fol- 
lowed by not in which fi7ty were badly hurt. 

3. Iron and nail works at Wheeling, W. Va., burnt, the largest 
in the West; 300 men thrown out of employment, and loss 

2-3. Five or six acres of a coal mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa 
fell in from the surface to a depth of 200 feet. ** 

2-12. Great and extensive floods in the region of Bombay 
Floods in Lower Bengal over entire distrtcts. A great 
drouth m Northwest Bengal broken by torrents of rains 
and hoods everywhere. In East Bengal 6,000 square 



52 The Black and Terrible Year. 

miles of country are under water. " The mind can scarcely 

conceive of the suffering and loss by these unprecedented 

Asiatic floods." 
4. Great Anti-Tammany meeting at Cooper Institute, New 

York, and the robbers arraigned at the bar of public 

opinion. 
4. A trapeze in Reading, Pa., performs on the bar with head 

downward, hanging by his feet, a hight of three-quarters. 

of a mile in the air, from a balloon. 
4- Hon. John Scott says that in two counties in South Caro- 
lina, between Oct. 1, 1870, and July 1, 1871, some 450 peo- 

have been outraged, and eight murdered. 
4. Destructive hurricane at Windom, Minn. 
6. New England Fair opens at Lowell. 
6. A section of the Commune established in Washington, 

D. C. 
6. The Filomena announced capsized off Malta and eleven 

men drowned. Hurricane at Fremont, Neb., destroying 

property worth $50,000. 
6. Election and Republican victory in California. 
5-6. Monster Musical Festival at Gloucester, Eng. 
5-6. The Committee of Seventy commence active opera- 
tions against the ring robbers in New York. 
6. Sons of Temperance 27th annual session, Boston. 
6. A Republican Committee of England issue a programme 

oi principles, a la Commune. 
6. Imperial Conference at Salzburg. 
6. Spain inaugurates trial by jury. 
6. "Goldsmith Maid" makes the best trotting time on record 

at Milwaukee — 2:17. 
6. Bar-Iron Manufacturers' Congress at Philadelphia, and 

ten millions represented. 
6. American Pomological Society meet at Richmond, Va., 

and 26 States are represented. 

6. A cyclone in the Gulf of Mexico. A $250,000 fire at 
Utica, N. Y., throwing out of employ BOO men. Seventy 
miners suffocated to death by fire damp explosion at 
Wigan, Eng. On Lake Erie occurred the severest gale of 
the season. 

T. Judge Barnard issues an injunction v. R. B. Connelly, of 

New York. 
•?. Sekoto, in New Zealand, while in rebellion, had 40 of his 

men killed by Government troops. 

7. Steamer Leader lost at sea, and of 25 souls on board not 
one survived. 

Y, Extraordinary explosion in the sun seen and described by 
Prof. Young of Dartmouth College. Debris of hydrogen, 
or masses of solar fire, 5,000 to 15,000 miles long, were 



Ghronological Eecord, 1871 — September, 53 

projected at a speed of 100,000 miles in ten minutes to d. 

hight of 200,000 miles from the solar surface. At night 

the earth's atmosphere responded with a grand aurora, 

"one of the finest ever seen." 
^-7. The "most dreadful thunder storm ever known" at 

Yorkshire, Eng., occurred, and rain fell equal to 233 tons 

per acre. 
^. Mooshillock Mountain, N. H., 5,050 feet high, made a U. 

S. signal service observatory. 
'S. M. Rossel, the hero of the Commune, sentenced to die. 
8. M. Thiers saj^s the budget of war expenditures for France, 



for the fiscal year, is 4,196,000,000 fran 



CS! 



8, In Albania 4,000 insurgent mountaineers in battle with 
the Turkish troops fought six hours, and in all 1,000 men 
were killed and wounded 

8. Hundreds of persons mysteriously poisoned during a 
steamboat excursion on Chesapeake Bay. 

9. The 116th new planet discovered by America, and on the 
11th the 117th new planet discovered b}' Germany. 

9. Threats in Rome to burn the Vatican, Pius's " Prison" of 
11,000 rooms. 

9, 11. A dock fight in London between 90 men and women, 
lasting four hours, and all injured. 

10. Burial of Renforth at Newcastle, England ; one hundred 
thousand people present. 

10. Another Cheney-Whitehouse church embroglio at Chicago. 
1-10. An unprecedented and appalling disaster to the Arctic 

whaling fleet occurs. Of 41 vessels comprising the fleet, 
33 were crushed in the ice near Cape Behring, and aban- 
doned with over 14,000 barrels of oil and nearly 100 tons of 
bone, valued with the fleet at $1,500,000. New Bedford, 
Mass., loses 23 of the vessels and over $1,000,000. 

11. International boat race at Saratoga, and the American 
Ward brothers win. 

11. Mayor Hall, of New York, requests Connelly to resign; 
he refuses. 

11. A boiler explosion at Newburyport, Mass., caused the 
death of six, and wounded two persons. In Whitehall, N. 
Y., thirty families are made homeless by fire. Since 
August 18 to date no such torrents of rain have fallen at 
Savannah, Ga., for 20 years, while all North Georgia and 
East Tennessee suffer with severe drouth. 

11. Awful typhoon on the Chinese Sea. At Hong Kong four 
ships were wrecked. It is said that 3,000 Chinese were 
drowned. Drouth prevails at Shanghae. 

12. "The vouchers," New York, discovered to have been, 
stolen. 

12. Violent assault on the Jews at Bucharest in Wallachia. 



54 The Black and Terrible Year. 

12. Tornado at Kohala, Cal.; heavy damage. 

13. The Pennsylvania Central leases the North Carolina rail- 
road. 

13. Sweden convokes the Diet to increase her army. 

13. Twenty-three horses burned up at New York: a brig lost 
off Land's End, Eng., and a dozen men with it; great 
storms reported off Cape Horn, and many vessels lost. 

14. The Hodge defalcation turns up; nearly half a million. 
14. Norton, N. Y., Post OflRce defalcation $115,000. 

14. Wall Street gigantic "Lock up" plot revealed. 
14. Hannah Roberts, a colored woman, believed to be 13Q 
years old, burnt to death at Philadelphia. 

14. Explosion of 250,000 torpedoes at New York, with ten 
casualties and much damage. At Pioche, Nev., 300 kegs 
of powder explode, killing six, wounding fifty, and shat- 
tering to pieces all the business portion oi the town ; dam- 
age is put at $250,000. Mills burnt at Stroud. Scotland ; 800 
persons thrown out of employ ; loss, $250,000. Lehifka, a 
large town in Algiers, destroyed by fire. 

15. The Jewish New Year, Anno 31uudi 5G32, begins. 

15. The river Gumti, in India, rose suddenly. On the lYth, 
the water flooded all the near lands. The city of Jounpeer» 
on its banks, with 9000 houses and 25,000 inhabitants, was 
that week destroyed. From 2000 to 3000 houses were car- 
ried off by the waters, and as many more were undermined 
and ruined, while half the population are houseless pau- 
pers, in suffering and famine. 

16. Grand Duke Alexis arrives at England. 

16. Soldiers' Monument dedication. Providence, R. I. 

16. In Carson, Nev., 29 criminals break jail, and in the melee 
six guards are wounded and one killed. 

17. Mount Cenis Tunnel, costing $13,000,000, inaugurated 
with royal splendor; a train traverses it in 20 minutes. 

17-24. This week Older' s circus, with forty-one horses, was 
destroyed by fire at Reedsburg, nineteen of the brutes were 
literally roasted to death. 

18 Connolly appoints Green Deputy Comptroller. 

18. Army and Kavy Monument founded at Boston. 

18. It is announced that famine, heat and disease destroyed 
1200 men of a Turkish army, near the Gulf of Persia, in 
Arabia. 

19. Nebraska votes on a new Constitution. 

19. Count Von Moltke made Marshal of the Empire. 

19. Armed bands of Mexican marauders are said to have 
stolen 5000 cattle in Texas. 

19-22. Virginia City, Nevada, had a terrible fire, consuming 
four blocks and burning over sixty acres; loss, $750,000. 

20. Anniversary of Italian liberation of Rome. 



Chronological Eecord, 1871 — September. 55 

20. Cholera reaches Smyrna and Constantinople. 

20. At Indianapolis, Ind., the banks of a street sewer in pro- 
cess of construction, fell in, burying thirteen men, eight of 
whom were killed. 

10-20. The entire Russian press engaged in angry attacks oo 
Germany. 

20. Terrible riot in Lima, Peru; 20 wounded and 500 im- 
prisoned; bullet and baj'onet used. 

20. Tidal wave alarm for a monlh on all the South Atlantic 
coast 

21. The voucher thieves, Haggerty and Balch, of New York, 
arrested. 

21. Secret Congress of Internationals begins at London, 
Karl Marx presiding 

22. Mass meeting of 20,000 people in New York in support 
of Tweed. 

21-22. The first colored coroner's jury in the Pacific States 
summoned by a Democratic coroner at San Francisco. 

22-23. Steamship Lafayette burned at Havre, France ; loss, 
in cargo and ship. $780,000. 

23. Mth anniversary Fulton street noon-day prayer meeting, 
held in North Dutch church. New York. 

24. Jewish Day of Atonement begun at sunset. 

24. National Convention of colored people at St. Louis, Mo, 

24. A brick block burnt at San Francisco, five or six men 
half killed, and the property destroyed. $1,0(0,000. 
Schooner C. F. Hurd and 11 men lost on Lake Michigan. 

25. The Japanese Government by decree abolishes the 
Diamios, who have ruled 300 years. 

25. At Hardman's Mills, Ala., a boiler exploded, six men 
were killed, one blown 300 feet away. In big Cottenwood, 
Utah, three large townships are burnt over. A steamship 
is said to have been lost on the coast of India, and 138 
human beings went down with her. 

26. Disraeli, in a speech at Hugenden, England, pronounces 
Queen Victoria physically and morally incapacitated frora 
reigning much longer ; England startled. 

26. A ton and a half of gunpowder exploded near Newburg, 
N. Y., one life lost, and the earth shaken as by an earth- 
quake. The severest rain and wind storm in Raleigh, N, 
C., known for many years, causing much damage. 

27. B}"^ order of the Czar, women in Russia can now be sur- 
geons, druggists, chemists, telegraphists, clerks, account- 
ants, etc. 

27. Brazil passes an emancipation act to free her 2,600,009 

slaves ; Parliamentary vote 44 to 33. 
27. Hong Kong residents assert life unsafe in China, and 

petition England for aid to foreigners. 



56 Tlie Black and Terrible Year. 

27. A great conflagration at Valparaiso, Chili, that con- 
sumed property valued at half a million of dollars. The 
forest fires of Wisconsin and Michigan sweep over miles 
and miles with alarming desolation. Forests, crops, build- 
ings, etc., destroyed. In Kewaunee county alone 22 build- 
ings are burnt, and the loss is a quarter of a million. 
Everything dry as tinder. 

21. A deficiency of eighty-eight millions of bushels an- 
nounced in the wheat crop of Great Britain. Coolie ship 
announced as lost on the coast of Martinique, with all on 
board. Two hundred dead bodies are washed ashore. 

28. National Commercial Convention, Baltimore. 

28. Terrible gales on the British coast. Ship Hesperus 
wrecked near the Weser's mouth and 24 men lost. In 
English waters 22 drowned. Explosion of fire-damp at 
Grisons, Switzerland, suffocating to death 30 miners. To 
date 75 men in Illinois are this season cut, injured or killed 
by reaping machines. 

29. The Committee of Seventy sue the "Ring" to recover. 

29. Democrats in Reform Meeting in New York resolve to 
purge the party of the rogues. 

30. Peace Congress at Lausanne, Switzerland. 

30. Lake Champlain bridged for a railroad at Ticonderoga 
and trains running. 

30. Juarez re-elected President of Mexico. 

30. Prof. Wilbur, at Paoli, Ind., fell from his balloon at the 
hight of a mile in the air ! 

20-30. A Russian Fair held eight weeks at Novgorod had 
300,000 attendants, and took $125,000,000. 

30. Russia has taken forcible possession of the Island of 
Saghalien ; 32,000 square miles. 

23-30. Awful rains and floods in all England and Scotland, 
with loss of life; 300 acres of land reclaimed from the sea 
overflown, 300 feet of a $250,000 pier destroyed, and the 
aggregate loss millions. 

30. Warehouses consumed at Chicago and four men with 
them; loss $1,000,000. At St. Louis, Mo., within three 
months twenty persons have committed suicide by jump- 
ing from ferryboats. At Meridian, Miss., on the 2d there 
was a fire of $100,000 loss; Rahway, N. J., on the 3d 
$140,000, and 100 men lost employ; Providence, R. I., the 
5th, $100,000; Oakdale, Mass., the 7th, $175,000 ; Bloom- 
ington. III., the 9th, $300,000; Saratoga, N. Y., the 14th, 
$200,000; St. Albans, Vt., the 17th, $120,000 and fifteen 
families houseless; St. Paul, Minn., the 16th, $100,000; 
St. John, N. B , the 21st, thirty houses and stores burnt, 
$150,000, and the same day, $150,000 fire at Cardington, 
Pa. On the 29th a fire in Philadelphia destroyed $175,000, 



Chronologieal Record^ 1871 — October. 57 



OOTOBEIi. 

1. International money order system between this country 
and England goes into operation. 

1. King Amadeus donated $250,000 and received 30,000 peti- 
tions on a recent tour through Spain. 

1. Fight in Fiji between 600 troops and rebels; many of the 
latter put to death. 

1. Half the vintage of South France ruined by storms, hail, 
water-spouts and floods. Ship James Booth, with 19 men, 
lost in the Bay of Bisciay. 

2. Brigham Young arrested upon indictment for ^his evil 
deeds, 

% Military service made compulsory in Sweden. 

2. The Commissioners of the Washington-Alabama treaty 

adopt fixed rules for petitioners. 
2. Turkish army raised to 220,000 men, with 19 iron clads 

and 84 wooden ships. 

2. Melilia, in Morocco, besieged by 12,000 Moors in arms 
against France. 

^. In Wisconsin 100 families are now burnt out. Near Fox 
River the area of the fires is 120 by 30 miles. The people 
houseless and starving. No water. For 25 miles in length 
and 8 or 10 miles in breadth on the Wabash Railroad, fires 
rage two days, and crops, woods, meadows, are consumed. 

3. Mayor Hall of New York summoned before a Police Court. 
3. The "City Pay Rolls " published. 

3. Sixty-second annual session of the American Board of 

Foreign Missions at Salem, Mass. 
3. Ex-Governor Seward returns from his foreign tour. 

3. A frightful hurricane, the severest ever known in the Gulf, 
wrecked the C. K. Hall, drowning all on board, and wreck- 
ing scores of other vessels, flooded New Orleans, Galveston, 
Houston and all the shores. The losses estimated by the 
million. 

4. Democratic State Convention at Rochester, N. Y., and the 
Tammany Ring thrown out. 

4. Protestant Episcopal Triennial Convention at Baltimore. 

4. From August 26 to date, Wyoming, Arizona and other 
territories visited by destructive flres in the woods. For 
40 days this devouring element consumed millions of acres 
of forest timber in the Rocky Mountains, making the air 
black with smoke. 

4, Seven men drowned at Yarmouth, Eng., flve more killed 
in a coal mine at South Wales, Eng., and in Belgium an 
explosion in a coal mine destroyed 37 men and badly 



58 The Black and Terrible Year, 

burnt 12 others. In London an oil explosion injured 13 
persons, four of them fatally — 74 casualties. 

5. The Mission Board at Salem announce 6000 Christians, 
missions at 43 places, and the gospel preached in 300 places 
in China. 

5. Democratic Reformers of New York City throw the thiev- 
ing Ring overboard. 

5. An insurrection in Goa has been quelled by force of Port- 
uguese arms. 

5. Fenian raid on Fort Garry and Manitoba suppressed by 
United States troops. 

6. Great earthquake in all Peru, S. -A. The city of Iquique 
shattered, wails cracked, etc. In Terrapecca a great dam 
and 20 buildings destroyed. Matilla and Pica in the inte- 
rior totally destroyed, not a house left standing; at Pica a 
great fire followed. Three other towns suffered badly. 
Five lives were lost. 

6. H. Rochefort's penal sentence commuted to banishment. 
6. Greatest drouth in the Western States known for 25 years, 
and terrible forest fires raging. 

6. Freight depots 2000 feet in extent destroyed by fire at 
Charlestown, Mass.; a women perished and hundreds of 
cars destroyed Loss $100,000. 

7. The Mormon Hawkins tried at Salt Lake City for adultery, 
on complaint of his wife. 

v. A railroad building from Yeddo to Yokohama and a loco- 
motive running over it. 

7. At Rio Chico in Venezuela 130 rebels captured and put tO' 
death. 

1-7. Thirty-eight deaths by violence registered in London 
this week, six of them being suicide. 

7. Pensaukee, Wisconsin, is half devoured by the flames of 
the burning forests ; 25 houses and 40 human victims to 
the fire. Damage to timber alone in Wisconsin is already 
put at $2,000,000. 

8. Election riots in Philadelphia, many injured. 

8. All the business part of Sandhurst, a large town in Aus- 
tralia, destroyed bj' fire; loss half a million of dollars. 

8-9. A fierce wind, in some places a tornado, swept over all 
the Westarn States bordering on the Upper Mississippi 
where the drouth prevails. Strong electrical action per- 
vaded the heated air and accompanied the wind. It drove 
the flames with great rapidity, and the result was baleful 
in the highest degree. 

8. Large conflagration at Chicago, the greatest that had ever 
occurred there. Four blocks were burned, one woman 
perished, and the loss was $300,000. 

$. An electrical tornado fans the flames of the burning cities, 



Chronological Record^ 1871 — October. 59' 

towns and forests of the West, and terrible calamities occur 
in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota. 

9-10. The burning of Chicago, a city of 300,000 souls. It 
was a raging, roaring hell of fire for 48 hours, without 
doubt the most destructive conflagration in any city for 
500 hundred years, and perhaps the greatest that ever oc- 
curred. The whole country moved and thrilled with horror 
and sympathy. The fire was seen at a distance of 110 miles,, 
and at the distance of two miles persons could see by its 
light to read the finest print. From 200 to 500 men, women 
and children are supposed to have perished — the real num- 
ber unknown. From V5.000 to 100,000 persons were made- 
homeless or paupers. The area of the burnt district is a 
mile and a half in width, and three and a half miles in 
length, or about five square miles, embracing the richest 
and most business portion of the city. 2000 wealthy man- 
sions were burnt. The total number of buildings of all 
kinds consumed was about 18,000. This is 4000 more than 
were burnt in the great fire in London in 1G66, and 3000 
more than were destroyed at Constantinople June 5, 1870. 
Eight school-houses burnt valued at $300,000. The total 
number of churches and chapels burnt was 75. In these^ 
Protestants lost $3,000,000, and Roman Catholics lost 
$5,0000,000. The loss to the United States was $500,000 
in the Custom House and Post Office, and $2,500,000 (some- 
say $18,000,000) in the Sub-Treasury. The city corpora- 
tion's loss was $5,000,000. Eight3"-nine newspaper con- 
cerns, every one in the city, were burnt up; their value- 
estimated at $10,000,000. There were also consumed 
80.000 tons of coal, 1,600,000 bushels of grain, 17,500 books 
and 17,000 pamplets in and with the Historical Society's 
library, full 3000 pianos, worth $1,000,000, and $1,500,00^ 
worth of other musical instruments; 50,000.000 feet lum- 
ber, and 2900 grog shops (no loss). Hundreds of animals. 
and domestic brutes perished. Sixty miles of streets were 
run over by flames, and 122 miles of sidewalk, valued at 
$1,000,000, destroyed, and the desolated area reached 2400 
or 3000 acres. Physicians estimate that there were 500 
premature births during the three days of the raging of 
the element. 57 Insurance Companies were broke by the 
fire, the loss to Insurance Companies being $88,621,122. The 
total destruction of property of all kinds by this gigantic 
calamity is from $250,000,000 to $300,000,000. By the 24th 
of October it was announced that $100,000,000 in stock had 
been sunk by the fire. To the Chicago and other Western 
sufferers America has contributed $5,000,000 and Europe 
$1,000,000. 

9. The town of Peshtigo, Wis., population 1,800, consumed. 



^0 T%d Black and Terrible Year. 

by forest fire, and clouds of burning hydrogen driven by 
electrical tornado. Some 400 dwellings and as many other 
buildings devoured in an hour. In Peshtigo and the Sugar 
Bush region near by, 1,000 human beings were burnt up, 
and the loss in property was $3,000,000. 

:d. Williamsburgh, Wis., burnt. Of a population of 78 per- 
sons, 74 of them perished in the flames. Negaunee burnt, 
and 100 persons destroyed. Forrestville burnt, and 50 
souls were victims At Birch Creek 13 were consumed. 
On the lake shore at Fox River 70 lives were lost. Brus- 
sels had 200 houses consumed and 22 persons burnt up. 
Every house except five in this Belgian settlement was 
burnt. At Little Sturgeon Bay 75 were burnt to death. 
The Green Bay Advocate gives a list of 30 villages burnt, 
and some 1,500 human beings devoured by the flames in 
the single State of Wisconsin. Perhaps 2,000 others were 
more or less burnt or injured. Seven large counties, each 
including more than a thousand square miles of pine 
forest, with scattered villages, were more or less run over 
with -fire. The loss to pine timber and property in the 
State can not be less than $10,000,000. 

'9. The city of Holland, Mich., population of 3,000, consumed. 
Five churches, 3 hotels, 68 stores, and more than 300 
dwellings burnt, and 140 farms entirely destroyed. A 
clean sweep a mile wide and two miles long was made. 
Loss $500,000. In Holland and vicinity were 6,000 home- 
less people. 

-5. Manistee, Mich., destroyed. Population 4,000. There 
were devoured by flame 200 dwellings, 6 mills, a dock and 
vessel. The place half burnt, loss in property $1,300,000. 
There were made homeless 1,500 people. In Michigan the 
burnt district between Saginaw and Huron alone em- 
braced 23 townships, in which nine-tenths of the houses 
and property were destroyed, and 19 townships partly 
burnt; total area 1,400 square miles. The total area of 
fire was a coast line on the lakes west, north and east of 
400 or 500 miles, and variously of five, ten, and fifty miles 
in depth. One account says every county in the State 
suffered, and the property destroyed in a single week is 
put as high as one hundred millions of dollars. The 
Chicago Tribune says there are fifty thousand people in 
Michigan and Wisconsin alone who are burnt out of their 
all. 
9-11. On September 29 a prairie and woods fire started at 
Kaka on Red river in Minnesota, 250 miles west of St. 
Paul, and in ten days it ran to the southeast a distance of 
300 miles, ranging 100 miles in width. " The world never 
.saw such a fire before." The sun was darkened and the 



Chronological Record, 1871 — October. 61 

cinders filled the air. Big Woods and Red River Valley 
were destroyed, and Fort Abererombie narrowly escaped 
destruction. In the track of this sea of flame, 350 scat- 
tered farms and farm houses were consumed, and 200 per- 
sons lost their lives. The loss to farms and houses is put 
at $3,000,000. The pine and prairie territory ravaged em- 
braced 30,000 square miles. In all these western fires it is 
computed that from 2,500 to 3,000 human beings perished 
in the short space of a week or ten days ! The material 
loss can not be calculated by man. 
9. At Collingwood, Germantown, and Sandwich, in Ontario,, 
great fires destroyed 25 buildings, and the loss was $100,- 
000. 

9. Violent and injurious earthquake at Co istantinople. 

10. The figures of the great frauds in Mew York published* 
the Ring have stolen nearly $20,000,000 of the people'^ 



money 



10. Bloody riots in Philadelphia and three brigades of militia 
called out to put it down. Seven were killed and thirty 
wounded by pistols and guns. 

•10. Forty-one persons reported shot and hung in the streets 
of burnt Chicago. 

11. The world thrilled at the awful Western fires, and all 
moving to aid the suflFerers. 

11. The Orpheus of Boston arrives at Hong Kong, and Bos- 
ton knows it by sundown ; distance 13,000 miles. 

1-12. Pre-historic skeletons 8 or 9 feet high found in Vir- 
ginia. 

11. Praying Bands' Quarterly at Boston; 20 Bands repre- 
sented. 

11. In the interior of China, a mob destroy mission chapels 
and murder a missionar3^ 

12. Anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus 
and national salute of 37 guns on Boston Common. 

12. Jubilee Celebration at the Episcopal Convention at Bal- 
timore on the Fifteenth Anniversary of Domestic and For- 
eign Missions. 

12. Strikes at Newcastle end, having lasted nineteen weeks, 

12. The American Relief Fund for Chicago— only three days 
old— reaches $2,500,000. 

12. Executive Proclamation against the South Carolina Ku- 
Klux. 

9-12. Brigham Young appears in Court at Salt Lake on trial. 

11, 12. American Social Science Association, Boston. 

12. Seizure of $120,000 worth of tobacco in Boston by the 
United States. 

12. Russia and Turkey are covering tJie Black Sea, with ves- 
sels of war. 



€2, . The Black and Terrible Year. 

12. Windsor, in Ontario, in all its business portion, burnt by 
incendiary fires. Loss $150,000. Within twenty days 
after the destruction of Chicago the torch of the incendiary 
was applied to fifteen large cities and towns in Canada and 
the United States. 

12. Great earthquake in Ecuador, S. A. It occurred in 
Salta, a Republic twice the size of New York, and a popu- 
lation of sixty thousand. Oran, one of the principal 
towns, was totally destroyed. It disappeared in ten 
minutes, nothing remained but ruins. The convulsion 
lasted nine hours, and forty shocks were experienced. In. 
the Province of Jujua the convulsion was very violent, and 
a volcano burst into eruption. 

13. In Crotia, Austria, a revolt occurs and three captured 
leaders are hung, and many imprisoned. 

11-13. Terrible wind and rain in Halifax and all Nova 
Scotia. "The heaviest hurricane known in twenty years." 
The Sophia and all hands were lost; tide rose two feet over 
the wharves; thirty vessels were damaged; loss $200,000. 
In Maine, torrents of rain fell, rivers burst their banks, 
and five million logs broke away and ran down stream. 
Rain fell over Michigan and Wisconsin, also at Chicago. 

13. Encke's comet makes its first appearance to New Haven 
astronomers. 

14. Chicago Relief Fund reaches three million of dollars. 
14. Young Men's Municipal Reform Association organized at 

New York. 

14. Indians drive off 1,500 cattle in Texas. 

14-16. Awful gale over Canada and all the lakes. Steamer 
R. G. Colburn foundered, and twenty or thirty of the crew 
went down with the vessel; loss $100,000. In Ogdensburg 
and Malone, N. Y., a destructive tornado. 

15. The Alsace-Lorraine Treaty signed in France. 

15. English Workingmen in an address demand separation 
of Church and State. 

15. Revolution in Mexico begins on the election of Juarez, 
and continues the rest of the year. 

16. Bradaugh, at an immense meeting of London workmen, 
calls the Queen " insane," and demands a regency. 

16. American Chicago Relief Fund runs up to $4,460,000. 
16. The Horton fishing vessel excitement at Gloucester. 

16. More insurrections reported in Algiers. 
14-16. Martial law in Texas. 

17-18. The European and North American Railroad com- 
pleted, and celebration at Bangor; President Grant present. 

17. Martial law declared in nine South Carolina counties. 
17. At Hague, in Holland, occur mobs and outrages. 

17. It is announced that incendiary fires have consumed to 



CJironoIogical Record, 1871 — October. 63 

asbes 800 dwellings in Bogooslau, in Odessa, a south pro- 
vince of Russia. A fire in London threw 1000 men out of 
employ, and caused a loss of $100,000. 

18. Twenty-eigth annual session of Sons of Temperance, 
Boston. 

19. Reform Movement and Alliance of Peers and Working- 
men in England. 

18-19. Franco-Prussian Treaty of Peace ratified. 
19. From Persia comes news of insurrection, war and cap- 
tivity. 

19. Earthquake in Maine. Great gale on Lake Erie and 
much damage at Buffalo. Sand storms in Los Angeles and 
San Bernandino Co., Cal., scattered and destroyed 50,000 
sheep. 

20. Capt. Hall heard from at Upper Navic, Greenland, Sept. 
5, "all's well." 

20. Queen Victoria seriously ill. 

20. Elective Franchise instituted in Egypt, and the women 

permitted to go unveiled. 
29. Nihilist disturbance and arson in Russia. 

20. In Santa Cruz county, Cal., fire ravaged a region nine 
miles long and four miles wide, covered with farm property. 
Cameron, Mo., burnt by incendiaries; loss $132,000. 

21. Reported discovery of an open polar sea, swarming with 
whales. Germany has the honor. 

21. Hawkins, of Utah, convicted of adultery. 
21. Workinfimen's riot at Lincoln, England. 

21. A $130,000 fire at New York. In Campbell county, Ky., 
many square miles of forest and field burnt over. 

22. Seven expeditions reported at work to find the North 
Pole. 

22. The Franco-American postal treaty a failure. 

22. Romanists cause mobs at Scranton, Pa. 

23. National Police Convention, St. Louis, Mo. 

24. 300 Ku-Klux in South Carolina surrender in a panic. 
23-24. National Insurance Convention in New York. 

24. 2500 Mormon women petition Congress in favor of po- 
lygamy. 

24. Terrible riot and massacre of 19 Chinese by 500 infuriated 
whites at Los Angeloes, Cal. 

23-24. Extensive forest fires in Livingston, Niagara, Genesee, 
Wayne, Seneca, and Monroe counties, New York. Three 
persons burnt up near Auburn. The city of Rochester so 
filled with smoke that lights are needed all day. The for- 

• ests and mountains of West Maryland a sheet of flame. 
Near Troy. N. Y., terrible fires rage. In Orleans county, 
N. Y., 1,000 acres are burnt over; near Medina, " thou- 

• sands of acres." Near Albion, N. Y., a fire raged five 



64 The Black and Terrible Year. 

days, and destroyed 1,500 cords of wood, 175,000 tons of 
hay, 12 houses and 12 mills. At Black Creek, Ontario, 
terrible fires rage, and near Dauphin, Fa., the mountains 
on fire for miles. " From all parts of the world," says the 
Tribune^ N. Y., "we continue to receive tidings of de- 
struction of life and property by flood, fire, and shipwreck." 

24. At Nord, France, a boiler explosion killed 10 and wounded 
20 persons. 

26. Civil suit vs. William M. Tweed for $10,000,000 is com- 
menced by C. O'Conor at Albany. 

26. Baltimore Episcopal Convention adjourns sine die, after 
a session of 20 days. 

26. Fires rage on the mountains near Ludlow, Vt., and west 
of North Adams, Miss. In San Joaquin county, Cal.^ 
crop3 have failed two seasons and 1,000 people suffer 
want. A coal mine explosion in Durham county, England, 
suffocated to death 33 men. Destructive fires on the 
north coast of California. 

27. Tweed arrested, and released on $2,000,000 bail. 

27. Count Von Beust policy triumphant, and the Austrian 

Ministry resign. 
27. At Macon, Ga., Weston walks, without stopping, fifty and 

a half miles in 91i. 49m. 45s. 

27. Another revolt in Goa. 

28. Victoria announced to be insane and a spiritualist, and 
the Royal family hold council over it. She refuses to sign 
public papers. 

28. Brigham Young and his son indicted for murder and a 

warrant issued for their arrest. 
28. The Cuban war this year costs Spain $62,000^000. 

28. The stack of an iron furnace exploded at Youngstown, 
Ohio, badly injuring 9 men and destroying property worth 
$75,000. 

29. President Grant appoints November 30 a National 
Thanksgiving Day. 

29. Sunday : day of fasting and prayer at Chicago. 

30. Boston Relief Fund for Western sufferers is $425,668. 

30. Great excitement in England, and comments of the press 
upon the Queen's health. 

30. Governor Bullock of Georgia disaffected, resigns. 

30. Private conference of Gortschakoff and Bismarck. 

30. The London Spectator says if the Persian famine lasts 
another year, Persia will be blotted from the list of nations. 

30. International conspiracy at Barcelona. 

SO. Severe and damaging earthquakes in all the West In- 
dian Islands. We also record the failure of crops, with 
want and destitution reported for Italy, the continuance of 
the horrors of fanaine in Persia^ and the deaths during the 



Chronological Hecord, 1871 — November. 65 

past summer by yellow fever in all the Argentine Republic 
of not less than 60,000 persons. The fire list of October 
is estimated to be not less than five hundred millions of 
dollars. 
31. The National Guards of France are all disarmed. 



IVOVEIMI^EK. 



1. Chicago and other fire Relief Funds at London reach 

1225,000. 
1. Alarm in Russia at the noik-arrival here of Alexis. 
1. Vermont University at Burlington decides to admit 

women as pupils. 
1. Several districts in Venezuela in a state of siege. 

1. The Michigan fires still raging, and the people in fear, 
" Smoke so dense as to obscure the sun at noon-day." 

2. Russia's war debt is $1,480,000,000. ■ 

2. C holera said to be dying away in Prussia. 

2. Queen "Vic's" fortune reported to be $35,000,000. 

2. The assets of the Chicago Fire Insurance Companies dis- 
covered to be $30,000,000, and their losses $20,000,000. 
They are sued by the Stale's Attorney of Illinois. 

3. The Workingmen of Europe decide on a general strike. 

3. France continues the Anglo-French Commercial Treaty. 
3. The Catacazy difficulty discussed in St. Petersburg and 
Washington circles. 

3. Algerian resurrection reported at an end. 

4. Five hundred thousand dollar fraud in the Indian Bounty 
Department dated at Washington — J. W. Wright the ac- 
cused. 

4. Registration Day in New York. 

4. Brazil proposes to organize a tree school system. 

4. North Carolina Bond Fraud ventilated ; only $20,000,000. 

4. Russia has in a single week's war acquired of China the 
Province of Thian-Chan-Pe-Bo, which is in area 65,000 
square miles, and has a population of 2,000,000. 

4. A great and destructive fire in the city of Gautemala. 

5- The $20,000 horse " Hamiltonian " died at Richmond, Ky. 

5. Saltillo, Mexico, besieged by revolutionists; 100 troops 
killed. 

4, 5. Battle of Yangue, Honduras ; the rebels defeated, with 
many slain. 

5. A frightful panic in a colored church at Louisville, Ky., 

5 



06 The Black and Terrible Year. 

caused the death by trampling under foot of 9 women and 
3 children, and the injury of 75 others. 
6. New York orders four regiments under arms for to-mor- 
row's election. 

6, Sir Charles Dilke attacks the English Throne. 
€. New York had a $120,000 fire. 

\. Election day in nine States, and great Republican victo- 
ries. New York Republican. 
T. Count Von Beust, Chancellor of Austria, resigns. 

7. The famous Tichborne trial resumed. 

7. Peter B. Sweeney, of the "Ring," resigns his oflSce. 

7. Maximilian statue unveiled at Vienna. 

7. Education in Paris made compulsory and gratuitous, but 

not entirely secular. 
7. Bloody election riots and outrages in Texas. 

7. Hellish attempt to burn the Milford, Mass., school house 
while 200 children were in it. 

8. Germany appoints a Diplomatic Convention at Dresden 
to devise measures v. the Internationals. 

8. The French Minister of War prohibits the circulation of 

newspapers in the army. 
8. Three States in Mexico in revolution ; Diaz in the field 

against Juarez. 

8. A Gloucester vessel, the F. E. Riggs, and all hands lost on 
the Banks. 

9. At Madrid a "League" is formed v. the Internationals. 

9. Brooklyn, N. Y., gets excited over election frauds and a 
"Brooklyn City Ring." 

9. In France a coal mine explosion at St. Ettienne while the 
gangs were at work killed by suffocation 61 men. A 
brilliant aurora so bright in New York as to "cast 
shadows." It was visible everywhere, and seemed in its 
glorious crimson like an immense fire. In all New Eng- 
land it was one of the most remarkable witnessed for years. 

8-10. In Knobnoster, Mo., rain descended continuously for 
two weeks over a spot twenty feet square from a clear and 
cloudless sky. (This lusus 7iaturce also occurred at 
Mobile, Ala.," on the 3d Nov., 1870.) 

9. Other rivers in China reported to have burst their banks; 
dead bodies by the hundred found on the desolated plains; 
thousands will perish of famine. 

9. A meteor fell and rolled along the ground beside a travel- 
ing carriage at South Easton, Mass. 

10. Brooklyn, N. Y., holds a great indignation meeting. 
10. Statue of Schiller unveiled at Berlin. 

10. National Steamboat Convention, Louisville, Ky. 
10. An election riot reported at Lima, Peru, causing the 
death of six, and wounding of seventy persons. 



Chronological Record^ 1871 — November. 67 

10. A car load of United States soldiers thrown from the 
track at Wellsville, Mo., and two killed with fifty wounded. 

11. The advance vessel of the Russian fleet arrives in New- 
York harbor. 

11. First native Methodist Episcopal Church in Mexico just 

formed. 
11. New educational measures pushed forward in Russia by 

the Czar. 
11. Mob at Valencia, Spain, dispersed by cavalry. 
11. At Plymouth, Eng., by collision, a schooner and crew of 

ten men lost, and at Pottsville, Pa., three little children 

suffocated to death in a coal mine. 

11. Solar phenomenon seen at Buffalo, N. Y. The sun at 
setting took a conical form, elongated as if it were molten 
iron, and the sides run down into the lake, magnifying it 
to twice its usual size. In the centre of this !ong mass 
was plainly visible the figure of a ship, as if she were sail- 
ing in the sun. 

12. The Queen recovers, and a Regency is abandoned. 
12. Habeas corpus suspended in Union Co., S. C. 

5, 12. Expected battle in Venezuela between 4,000 troops and 

3,000 insurgents under Herrera. 
8, 12. Seven whites killed and two wounded on the stage in 

Arizona; Fred. W. Loring murdered. 

12. The Tiber in Italy, by months of rain, flood all its val- 
leys; enormous losses. 

12-14. Anniversary of the November star showers; very few 
seen to fall. 

13. The Supreme Court of the Washington District decides 
that Congressmen are not exempt from arrest by civil 
process. 

13. Russia plans a canal from the Black and Caspian seas — 
370 miles, to cost $80,000,000—30,000 men are in six years 
to dig out 78,380,000 cubits of earth. 

13. The Franklin, from Stettin, with cholera on board, is at 
New York Quarantine. 

13. Bonapartist plot comes to light in Paris. 

13. Thirty-five Apaches killed by friendly Indians in Arizona. 

13. Extensive incendiary fire at Geneva, Switzerland. 

14. A Turkish firman inaugurates public improvements. 

14. Extraordinary storm from Europe to California. Thirty 
lives lost by wrecks in England. Damaging gale and high 
water at New York and Brooklyn. Long Branch nearly 
destroyed. Charleston, S. C, flooded, and half the city 
under water. Estimated loss $1,000,000. 

15. The "Egypt," the largest vessel afloat except the Great 
Eastern, arrives at New York; length 450 feet; tonnage 
5,150. Three deaths from cholera at New York. 



68 The Black and Terrible Year. 

15. American and British Claims Commissioners meet at the 
National Capitol. 

15. The Gloucester fishing season ends. More vessels lost 
(22) than in any former year, and more lives lost (140) 
than in any other year save 1862; 45 widows and 90 or- 
phans made. Loss in property, $10.3,680. 

15. Diamond Mills at Peoria, 111., burnt; loss $200,000. 
Colliery explosion at Wigan, England, shook all the place 
like an earthquake, and killed eight men. 

15-20 A fire at Hakodia, Japan, destroyed nearly the whole 
town; loss over half a million of dollars. 

16. The "Auk," an Arctic bird, visits New England for the 
first time. 

16. Over the Oxford coal mine at Scranton, Pa., 20 acres of 
land settled, and the town endangered. _ Loss $130,000. 

17. General Sherman and staff leave in the Wabash for 
Europe. 

17. The 564th anniversary of the independence of Switzer- 
land. 

15-17. The National Congregational Council meet at Oberlin, 
Ohio. 

17. Furious hail storm at Dallas county, Texas. Men and 
stock killed in the streets; houses unroofed, and hail as 
large as hen's eggs. 

18. The Russian fleet arrive at New York with the Grand 
Duke Alexis. 

18. By explosion at Coblentz, Germany, three persons were 
killed and a dozen wounded. 

19. Forty cholera cases in New York Lower Bay. 

19. The Spanish Ministry resign and the Cortes arrays itself 
against the King. 

19. Collision of two ships in the Mersey, England, sinking 
both and drowning 20 or 30 persons. The cotton crop of 
the South is reported one-quarter or one-third destroyed 
by worms, &c. 

20. "Connelly resigns the ComptroUership of New York, and 
Green is sworn into the office. 

20. Dr. McLeod, the Queen's physician for 14 years, says she 

is not insane. 
20. Trial of Homeopathic physicians before the Mass. Med. 
. Society. 

20. The floods at Teinsing reach their hight, but do not sub- 
side. Forty thousand drowned out and starying in the 
city. The Peiho for 140 miles has overflowed a vast track, 
thickly inhabited, embracing 4 prefectures and 59 districts. 

21. The Prince of Wales taken suddenly ill of Entric fever. 
21. Seizure of the books of W. F. Weld & Co., Boston.. 

21. Grand reception of Duke Alexis at New York. 



Chronological Record^ 1871 — Noveynher. 69 

22. The United States and Spanish-Cuban difficulties assume 
a serious nature. 

21. Corner stone of an M. E. Church laid at Salt Lake. 

22. Minister Schenck, at London, accused by the English 
and American press of engaging in commercial and stock 
operations. 

22, 2*7. Angry popular demonstrations at Brussels and 
all Belgium. 

22. Authorities of Paine county, Arizona, say that 500 citi- 
zens of the States have been murdered by Indians. 

22. The Ohio river runs so low that 60 coal mines are 
stopped, and 100 tow boats and 6,000 men lie idle; loss per 
diem $75,000. Steamer City of New London burnt on the 
Thames, Conn.; 22 lives lost; the boat loss was $100,000. 

23. North Carolina talks of repudiating her debt of only 
$35,000.-000 

23. Alexis visits the Capitol and the President. 

22, 23. Anti monarchy Mass Meeting in Bristol, England, 
and the throne denounced. 

23. A $209,000 breach of promise case in San Francisco. 
23. Two auroral rings seen encircling the moon in a clear 

sky at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Terribly rough, cold, disas- 
trous wirsds. 
23. A $170,000 fire at Newark, N. J. In Kansas, Montana 
and Wyoming men, soldiers, Indians and cattle perish by 
the dozen with cold. "Storms unprecedented in severity 
on the Plain." 

23. A lighter crowded with Algerine Mohammedan pilgrims 
to Mecca sunk by collision near Alexandria, Egypt; and 75 
persons drowned. On a boat in the Pacific Ocean 23 Jap- 
anese seamen starve to death, and others suffer terribly. 

22. A colliery explosion at Bromish, England, killed 8, and 
another at Haversford wounded 20 persons. About this 
time the English ship Nonpareil foundered, and 19 persons 
went down. 

24. The illness of the Prince of Wales assumes an alarming 
type. 

24-. A Democratic-Republican plan discussed in Washington 
to defeat the re-election of U. S. Grant. 

25. Catacazy is dismissed and General Orloff made Charge 
de Aff'airs of the Russian Legation. 

25. Romish Anti-Bible war begins at Hunter's Point, L. I. 

25. Connell}' arrested and bail fixed at a million. 

25. Congress has 800 bills before it for the next session, 

26. Sixty deaths by small pox in Cincinnati last week. 

26. The Marmion and Osceola collide on the Irish coast — the 
latter sunk with 9 men. 



70 The Black and Terrible Year. 

27. The Italian Parliament holds its first session at Rome 

and the Holy Father "sticks." 
27. Trade Mark Convention between Austria and the U. S. 
27. German Diet opened by the Emperor. 
27. Five hundred thousand workmen on a strike in Germany.. 
27. Two thousand Ku-Klux arrested in South Carolina. 
27. Russia establishes two frontier camps of 180,000 men 

each. 
25, 27. Prussia demands apologies from Brazil, and sends a 

fleet to back it. 
27, 28. At Havana, the authorities arrest 45 students and 

shoot dead 8 of them for a trifling off"ence; also twa 

negroes shot. One father died of grief and two mothers 

went insane. 
27. Germany fortifies the Vosges. 

27. Hurricane at Cape Breton. Tide four feet higher thart 
ever known before, with tidal waves ; 12 vessels wrecked, 
and a loss in buildings, trees, shipping, &c., $100,000. 

28. Early winter with cold weather sets in. 

28. The Supreme Court of New York pronounces mock mar- 
riages to be legal. 

29. Admiral Lee with a fleet ordered to Cuban waters to pro- 
tect the interests of our country. 

29. Spain sends 30,000 more men to fight in Cuba. 

29. Saltillo, Mexico, is partly captured while defended by 
1,000 Mexican troops. 

30. Ex-Comptroller Richard B. Connolly, for lack of a. 
million dollars bail, is put in Ludlow street prison. 

30. National Thanksgiving and terrible cold. 

30. A Communist mob at Brussels. 

28-30. Millions of dollars damage by early and sudden freez- 
ing of all the rivers, lakes and canals in the North; 600 
boats with 5,000,000 bushels grain, potatoes and apples 
froze in the New York canals. Heavy losses in Canada. 
Terrific gales all over the land, and men in many places 
frozen to death. Off Cape Cod the Atwood and her crew 
of 6 men were all lost. Said the Boston Journal, "The 
list of disasters by fire and flood the present season is 
quite unprecedented. Shall we have an earthquake or 
tidal wave to crown the catalogue of misfortunes in the 
eventful year of 1871 ?" 



Chronological Record, 1871 — December. 71 



1. Sudden water famine at Boston by the freezing of 
Cochituate. 

1. French Assembly meets. 

1. Disturbances in Belgium. Resignation of the Miristry. 

1. A sorrowful rumor in Egypt that Sir Samuel Baker and 
700 of his men exploring Central Africa had died of star- 
vation. Terrible explosion in the powder and cartridge 
factory at Fort Agra, India, blowing 36 men to atoms. 

1. Disasters on the great lakes this season numbered 1,167. 
Two hundred and seventy-one lives lost; of these 214 were 
drowned. 

2. Great excitement in Spain over Cuban affairs, and King 
Amadeus says he will go to the island. 

2. Two hundred and thirty-three deaths from small pox in 

Philadelphia this week. 
2. England and the United States threaten to interfere in 

Cuban affairs. 
4. President's Message sent to Congress. Reports of the 

Secretaries are published 
4. Boutwell reports a decrease in the National debt of $94,- 

327,708.84 during the fiscal year. 
4. Murderous assaults on German soldiers in France cause 

the occupied cities to be put in a state of siege. 

4. Warwick Castle, England, damaged by fire and the loss in 
antiquary very great. On the 5th a very destructive fire 
in the elegant shops of Paris. 

5. The Diamond Fields of South Africa are all annexed to 
England. 

5, The Pacific Railroad blocked with snow, and storms cause 

death and suffering on the plains. 
5. Agricultural Congress at Selma, Ala. 
5. Revolutionists said to have taken Zailar, in Venezuela, 

after a hard battle, and made 500 prisoners. 
5. War in Fiji: a village burned and 15 natives killed. 

5. Cattle on the plains in Texas " dying by the scores of 
thousands" by reason of excessive cold. Dreadfully dam- 
aging storms at the city of Portland, Oregon. One thou- 
sand five hundred sheep burnt to death by the fires on the 
St. Joaquin Flats, Cal. 

6. A London English Court renders proceeds of rebel war 
material to the United States. 

6. New Brunswick and Prince Edwards sea cable breaks, 

Ontario Legislature opens. 
6. National Board of Trade meet at St. Louis, Mo. 



72 The Black and Terrible Year. 

6. P. S Gilmore returns from Europe elated with extraor- 
dinary success. 

6. In Polynesia all the wliites are expelled, and a war 
steamer is sent to investigate. 

6. Saltillo, Mexico, is captured. 

6. A $110,000 fire at Birmingham, Pa., and an $83,000 fire at 
Hagerstown, Md., with five or six casualties. Two vessels 
with 16 men lost near Halifax, and Prince Edward's 
Island badly damaged in a gale, At Lincoln, 111., 24 
buildings were burnt, 

7.. Anarchy in Mexico, Venezuela, and Cuba. 

8. The Grand Duke Alexis arrives at Boston, 

8. Orleans Princes demand their seats in the Assembly of 
France. 

8, The Prince of Wales dangerously ill, and said to be past 
hope of recovery. 

8. Tbe Fish-Catacazy Letters made public. 

9. Municipal elections in Spain result in a radical triumph. 
9. The telegrriph operators of England on a strike. 

9. Woman's Suffrage Convention at Boston. 

9. The mare "Kate" trotted 20 miles in 59 minutes 32 sec- 
onds at San Francisco. 

10. Sunday parade of the Internationals of New York, in 
memory of M. Rossel, broken up by the police. 

10. Great distress and suffering in Paris among the poor. 
Deep snow, weather intensely cold, many frozen to death, 
and hundreds of accidents dail}'. 

11. Total eclipse of the sun over the Indian Ocean. 

11. Congress agitated over Senator Trumbull's resolution for 
a thorough inquiry into Government affairs. 

11. The Internationals decide thej' will parade on next Sun- 
day, cost what it may, and petition the Governor about it. 

11. Municipal election in Boston ; Gaston re-elected Mayor. 

11. Free Religious Convention at Syracuse, N. Y. 

11. The expense of the United States census of 1870 
reported to be $3,287,600. 

11. Political disturbance and bloody mobs reported for 
Paraguaj^ S. A. 

12. The Ocean National Bank at New York fails, 

12. France votes 289 to 277, to alienate the Crown jewels to 
the State. 

13. Sensation dispatch relative to an angry altercation be- 
tween the Czaro witch Alexander of Russia and the Ger- 
man Foreign Minister— not confirmed. 

11-14. Balls and banquets to Alexis in Boston. 
13. The inhabitants of Turk's Island, desolated by earth- 
quake and wind, reported in a starving condition. 
13. JeffersonviUe, Texas, had a $100,000 fire, and Paterson, 



GJironological Eecord, 1871 — Deceynher. 73 

N. J., a $200,000 fire, with 212 persons thrown out of em- 
ploy. 

14. Grand Duke Alexis leaves Boston /or Montreal. 

14. The Prince of Wales said to be better. 

14. W3^omlng Territory still retains woman suflfrage. 

14. The arbitrators meet in Conference at Geneva, Switzer- 
land, to settle the Anglo-American claims; Adams, from 
the United States ; Cockburn, from Great Britain ; Selopis, 
from Italy; Estampfli, from Switzerland, and Itajuba, Irom 
Brazil. 

14. The Apportionment Bill is passed by the United States 
Congress, the House to conist of 283 members. 

15- Holland sells the Island of Sumatra to England. 

15. Tweed arrested at New York City for his sins. 

16. Italy reported constantly afflicted with earthquakes, 
causing both damage and panic. At Havre five sailors 
drowned. 

17. One thousand five hundred Internationals succeed in 
having a quiet Sunday procession in honor of poor Rossel 
at New York. Tiie Red Flag is carried. 

17. Ten thousand people reported drowned out by floods in 

India. 
17. Switzerland forbids the Jesuits to form communities or 

teach in the Republic. 
17. A terrific snow storm blocks the Pacific Railroad near 

Cheyenne for eight days. 
17. Reported failure of the Diaz Revolution in Mexico; 

14,000 Government troops are in pursuit of Diaz and his 

4,000 men. 

17. An infernal attempt made by incendiaries to burn what 
remains of Chicago. (Is it the International ?) Seventeen 
persons carried down in the Costa Rica, sunk b}' collision in 
the British Channel. 

18. General Butler presents a memorial to Congress for 
female suffrage. 

18. The Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph Companies petition 
Congress for incorporation. 

18. The American Peace Society Congress at New York, 

18. Russia gi^es furloughs to 50,0D0 soldiers. 

18. Social farewell to missionaries at Boston. 

18. A bill introduced into Cotigress to incorporate a com- 
pany who are to girdle the earth with a telegraph. 

18. Burgos, in Mexico, reported captured by revolutionists. 

19. The Geneva arbitrators adjourn to June 15, 1872. 

19. First direct season arrival of teas from China at Boston. 

19. The Orleans Princes take seats in the French Assembly. 

19. The Suez canal put into the market by Lesseps. 

19. President's Message to Congress on Civil Service. 



74 The Black and Terrible Year. 

19. The Committee of Seventy request Tweed to resign. 
19. Fourth National Bank at Philadelphia suspended. 

19. Poor harvests and terrible floods in Banate, the " corn 
chamber" of Hungary, "thousands of acres" under 
water, caus.ng pauperism, famine and typhus. In a single 
commune of 900 persons, from twenty to thirty die weekly 
of epidemic and starvation. 

20. Gold 108f— the lowest since 1862. 

20. Great alarm in all our cities at the terrible ravages of 

the small pox. 
20. Hoar's Labor Commission Bill passes the House. 
20. M. Thiers promises religious equality in France. 
20. A United States protectorate over Mexico talked of. 

20. Three railway accidents in this country killed four and 
wounded twenty persons. 

21. Senator Sumner offers a " One Term " bill in the Senate. 
21. Japan closes the Buddhist Temples and tells the priests 

to go to work for a living. 

21. Spain sends 1,000 men to reinforce the Cuban army. 

21-23. Outrages and negro insurrection in Chicot county, 
Ark.; a man murdered and three lynched. 

21. Revolt of Sepoys at Goa, in India, announced. 

21. At Pleasantville, Pa., forty families are burned out. The 
British steamer Delaware reported lost, with all on board. 

20-25. California deluged with rain; nineteen inches fall. 
Stockton, San Jose, and Gilroy half under water. Two ves- 
sels and some twenty men lost. 

20-23. At Roshiwara, Japan, a great conflagration consumed 
400 houses, and not less than eighty women perished. 

21. A large blue, purple and red meteor visible at Bangor, Me. 

22. Russia makes her language compulsory in the schools 
of Poland. 

22. M. Thiers dissolves the Council of Algiers. 

22. Germany threatens retaliation on France for repeated 

outrages on German soldiers. 
22. Alexis visits Niagara Falls. 
22. Riot at Curacoa, Cuba ; trOoops fire on the crowd, killing^ 

one and wounding nineteen persons. 

22. Victor Emmanuel's army budget shows a deficit of $30,- 
000,000 and an army of 546,442 fighting men, while the 
debt of the Kingdom is $1,500,000,000 

23. Russia has just organized 15,000 public schools. 

23. New York Gas House explodes; 13,000 families ia 
darkness. 

23. Terrific tornadoes. At Toledo, 0., no such wind was 
ever known. The storm stretched clear across the conti- 
nent; with deep snows on the high lands. Hurricanes in 
Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and 



Chronological Record, 1^1 \— December. 7^ 

Missouri. In Essex county, N. Y., there was violent thun- 
der and lightning. The damage is estimated at $500,000. 

24. The Committee of Seventy set detectives at work to 
watch the New York Legislature ! 

25. Russia, Austria and Turkey request Roumania to settle 
her railroad obligations. 

25. Russia conscripts six men in every 1,000 for military ser- 
vice in 1872. 

25. Murder, outrage and Ku-Kluxism in Sabine county, Mo. 
and five killed. The greatest tragedy that ever occurred, 
in Vermont — five shot at Arlington. 

2'6. Fresh gold discoveries in South Africa. 

26. The Captain General of Cuba authorizes barbarous mea- 
sures for all insurgents. 

26. A family of six persons burnt to death at Flories, Iowa. 

27. The Chinese Government proposes to send her sons to be 
educated in American schools. 

27. Tweed disappears, and a dozen detectives are after him. 
27. The Austrian Reichsrath opens. 

27. The trouble in Chicot county, Ark., is ended. 

27 28. A $150,000 fire at East Cambridge, Mass., and the 
largest fire ever known there at Little Rock, Ark., $100,- 
000 burnt up. 

28. The Austrian Emperor addresses the Reichsrath. 

28. Italy by royal decree confirms the recent American- 
Italian Treaty of Commerce. 

28. Trial of 107 citizens in Arizona for killing Indians; a 
verdict of not guilty. 

29. Union Pacific Railroad free from snow. 

29. Valmaseda removed from the Governorship of Cuba- 
29. Queen Victoria thanks England for its sympathy during: 
the Prince's illness. 

29. The city of Lyons in a state of siege by the French. 

30. The New York Ring is now broken up, imprisoned, 
resigned or dispersed. A good record with which to end 
1871. 

30. At Monroe, La., 60 buildings were consumed by fire, and 
the wealthiest portion of the city laid in ashes, the loss put 
at $589,000. A ship with 2,200 barrels of turpentine on 
board burnt on the Thames, England; loss $100,000. A 
road engine surrounded by a crowd of juveniles exploded 
boilers at Glasgow, Scotland, causing the death of 12 of 
the children. The Russian steamship Kuma, with all on 
board, foundered in a terrible gale on the Caspian Sea. 
On board was a million of roubles (i. e. $800,000,) which, 
with vessel, worth perhaps $700,000, were all lost. In the- 
Black Sea four Greek brigs and their crews all went down^. 



■76 The Black and Terrible Year. 

and in the English Channel ship Edwards foundered and 
lost; not a person on board of 20 or 30 was saved. 
i^O. Snow in Cottonwood, Utah, from 10 to 50 feet deep, and 
;, storms perpetually^, with great losses and suffering. 
31. Deaths in Philadelphia city this month by the small pox, 
1,094. In Maine this year there were 118 deaths by acci- 
dents, 77 persons were drowned, 52 committed suicide, and 
8: were murdered. In New York city there were 851 acci- 
dents of all kinds, 179 deaths by drowning, 108 suicides, 42 
homicides, and 8 other vjolent deaths. Total casualties 
1,314, including 126 infants found dead. "A dismal 
record," says the -World. Aside from the Western fires, 
the accidents in the United States resulted in the killing of 
800 persons and the inflicting of injuries on 500 others. 
These include only those killed and wounded in groups 
and not singly. In Madras, India, during the first eleven 
months of the year, 233 human beings were devoured by 
wild animals. In Persia three great cities of from 120,000 
to 180,000 souls have each lost 80,000 people by famine and 
disease, and as the year dies this entire nation of 10,000,000 
people are dying of the most awful epidemics and calami- 
ties. 

" It is seen that endless wars and preparations for war are 
the national programmes for the future, and although the 
year ends more peacet\;lly than it began, our record of fight- 
ing and turbulence in the human family during a single 
twelve-month, shows that the era of peace is yet to come, 
-and confirms all too sadly the terrible figures oi Burritt, 
""2,600 millions of dollars a year for Mars, against perhaps 
26 millions for Messiah." — Boston Journal. 



AS^EfilCAi^ HISTORICAL CMART 

From the discovery of America by Columbus ^ 

1 492, to ymitiary i , 1 8 7 1 . 

This Chart is carefully arranged ia Chronological order giving all fb© 
princi al events in the History of tho Uuited States. A tablo eliowing,- 
when, whero and by whom each e'ato was settled, when it was admitted 
into the Union, its capital and population in 1870. A table giving the 
names of the Presidents and Vic3 Presidents cf tho United States, when 
each was elected, and their term of office. Also a table showing when, 
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